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  2. Stellar parallax - Wikipedia

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    Stellar parallax is the apparent shift of position of any nearby star (or other object) against the background of distant stars. By extension, it is a method for determining the distance to the star through trigonometry, the stellar parallax method.

  3. Moving-cluster method - Wikipedia

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    The method has only ever been used for a small number of clusters. This is because for the method to work, the cluster must be quite close to Earth (within a few hundred parsecs), and also be fairly tightly bound so it can be made out on the sky. Also, the method is quite difficult to work with compared with more straightforward methods like ...

  4. Parallax in astronomy - Wikipedia

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    A parsec is the distance from the Sun to an astronomical object that has a parallax angle of one arcsecond (not to scale). The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure the large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System, approximately equal to 3.26 light-years or 206,265 astronomical units (AU), i.e. 30.9 trillion kilometres (19.2 trillion miles).

  5. Binocular disparity - Wikipedia

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    The disparity with the lowest computed value using one of the above methods is considered the disparity for the image feature. This lowest score indicates that the algorithm has found the best match of corresponding features in both images. The method described above is a brute-force search algorithm. With large patch and/or image sizes, this ...

  6. Parallax scrolling - Wikipedia

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    Parallax scrolling is a technique in computer graphics where background images move past the camera more slowly than foreground images, creating an illusion of depth in a 2D scene of distance. [1] The technique grew out of the multiplane camera technique used in traditional animation [ 2 ] since the 1930s.

  7. Parsec - Wikipedia

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    The parallax method is the fundamental calibration step for distance determination in astrophysics; however, the accuracy of ground-based telescope measurements of parallax angle is limited to about 0.01″, and thus to stars no more than 100 pc distant. [12] This is because the Earth's atmosphere limits the sharpness of a star's image.

  8. Tessellation (computer graphics) - Wikipedia

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    A simple tessellation pipeline rendering a smooth sphere from a crude cubic vertex set using a subdivision method. In computer graphics, tessellation is the dividing of datasets of polygons (sometimes called vertex sets) presenting objects in a scene into suitable structures for rendering.

  9. 2D to 3D conversion - Wikipedia

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    However, some methods propose to use the original image as one eye's image and to generate only the other eye's image to minimize the conversion cost. [4] During stereo generation, pixels of the original image are shifted to the left or to the right depending on depth map, maximum selected parallax, and screen surface position.