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  2. OpenGL Shading Language - Wikipedia

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    Originally, this functionality was achieved by writing shaders in ARB assembly language – a complex and unintuitive task. The OpenGL ARB created the OpenGL Shading Language to provide a more intuitive method for programming the graphics processing unit while maintaining the open standards advantage that has driven OpenGL throughout its history.

  3. Virtual piano - Wikipedia

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    The virtual piano is played using a keyboard and/or mouse and typically comes with many features found on a digital piano. Virtual player piano software can simultaneously play MIDI / score music files, highlight the piano keys corresponding to the notes and highlight the sheet music notes.

  4. Reduction (music) - Wikipedia

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    A piano reduction or piano transcription is sheet music for the piano (a piano score) that has been compressed and/or simplified so as to fit on a two-line staff and be playable on the piano. It is also considered a style of orchestration or music arrangement less well known as contraction scoring , a subset of elastic scoring .

  5. Metal (API) - Wikipedia

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    Metal is a low-level, low-overhead hardware-accelerated 3D graphic and compute shader API created by Apple, debuting in iOS 8. Metal combines functions similar to OpenGL and OpenCL in one API. It is intended to improve performance by offering low-level access to the GPU hardware for apps on iOS , iPadOS , macOS , and tvOS .

  6. Shader - Wikipedia

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    This shader works by replacing all light areas of the image with white, and all dark areas with a brightly colored texture. In computer graphics, a shader is a computer program that calculates the appropriate levels of light, darkness, and color during the rendering of a 3D scene—a process known as shading.

  7. Piano - Wikipedia

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    Piano Grand piano Upright piano Keyboard instrument Hornbostel–Sachs classification 314.122-4-8 (Simple chordophone with keyboard sounded by hammers) Inventor(s) Bartolomeo Cristofori Developed Early 18th century Playing range The Well-Tempered Clavier, first prelude of Book I Played by Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka Problems playing this file? See media help. A piano is a keyboard instrument that ...

  8. Keyboard matrix circuit - Wikipedia

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    Without a matrix circuit, a 61-key keyboard for a digital piano or a computer keyboard might require 62 wires to connect (one for each key, and a ground)—an awkwardly thick bundle of wiring. With a matrix circuit, any of 61 keys can be determined with only 16 wires.

  9. Keyboard Cat - Wikipedia

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    "Keyboard Cat" was ranked No. 2 on Current TV's list of 50 Greatest Viral Videos. [5] The first such "Keyboard Cat" video, entitled "Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat", was created by Brad O'Farrell, the syndication manager of the video website My Damn Channel. O'Farrell both secured Schmidt's permission to use footage and asked Schmidt to allow ...