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  2. Moiré pattern - Wikipedia

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    The drawing on the upper right shows a moiré pattern. The lines could represent fibers in moiré silk, or lines drawn on paper or on a computer screen. The nonlinear interaction of the optical patterns of lines creates a real and visible pattern of roughly parallel dark and light bands, the moiré pattern, superimposed on the lines. [4]

  3. Monochrome monitor - Wikipedia

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    Monochrome monitor. A monochrome monitor is a type of computer monitor in which computer text and images are displayed in varying tones of only one color, as opposed to a color monitor that can display text and images in multiple colors. They were very common in the early days of computing, from the 1960s through the 1980s, before color ...

  4. News ticker - Wikipedia

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    An example of a television news ticker, at the very bottom of the screen. News ticker on a building in Sydney, Australia. A news ticker (sometimes called a crawler, crawl, slide, zipper, ticker tape, or chyron) is a horizontal or vertical (depending on a language's writing system) text-based display either in the form of a graphic that typically resides in the lower third of the screen space ...

  5. Screen tearing - Wikipedia

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    Screen tearing[1] is a visual artifact in video display where a display device shows information from multiple frames in a single screen draw. [2] The artifact occurs when the video feed to the device is not synchronized with the display's refresh rate. That can be caused by non-matching refresh rates, and the tear line then moves as the phase ...

  6. Screen of death - Wikipedia

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    (The top screen was black, and the bottom screen was red with white debug font saying "Guru Meditation Error! data abort! " with some hex addresses below it.) Kernel Debugging Land is the name of the Kernel Debugger users of Haiku and BeOS see when a kernel crash happens.

  7. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The Hollow-Face illusion is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face. Hybrid image. A Hybrid image is an optical illusion developed at MIT in which an image can be interpreted in one of two different ways depending on viewing distance. Illusory contours.

  8. Cursor (user interface) - Wikipedia

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    A cursor is a name given to the transparent slide engraved with a hairline used to mark a point on a slide rule. The term was then transferred to computers through analogy. Cursor on a slide rule. On 14 November 1963, while attending a conference on computer graphics in Reno, Nevada, Douglas Engelbart of Augmentation Research Center (ARC) first ...

  9. Scan line - Wikipedia

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    The signals from multiple lines are overlaid, showing shaded areas instead of a single curve. A scan line (also scanline) is one line, or row, in a raster scanning pattern, such as a line of video on a cathode ray tube (CRT) display of a television set or computer monitor. [ 1 ]