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Major news sites or corporate websites are typically engineered to serve large numbers of requests and therefore do not normally exhibit this effect. Websites that fall victim may be hosted on home servers, offer large images or movie files or have inefficiently generated dynamic content (e.g. many database hits for every web hit even if all ...
His first novel, Slow Fall to Dawn, was in the Top Ten for the Locus Award for Best First Novel. [2] As Guest of Honor at Bubonicon 43 [when?] Leigh was interviewed for MTV Geek Coverage about working on the Wild Cards series. [3] A special one-shot convention was held in his honor in Minneapolis, April 11–13, 2008, called Applecon.
Technical and historical variations of this effect have been referred to as time slicing, view morphing, temps mort (French: "dead time") and virtual cinematography. The term "bullet time" was first used with reference to the 1999 film The Matrix, [2] and later in reference to the slow motion effects in the 2001 video game Max Payne.
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A strobe fountain, a stream of water droplets falling at regular intervals lit with a strobe light, is an example of the stroboscopic effect being applied to a cyclic motion that is not rotational. When viewed under normal light, this is a normal water fountain.
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