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  2. Fechner color - Wikipedia

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    The Fechner color effect is an illusion of color seen when looking at certain rapidly changing or moving black-and-white patterns. They are also called pattern induced flicker colors ( PIFCs ). A sample of a Benham's top ( animated version )

  3. Throbber - Wikipedia

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    A throbber animation like that seen on many websites when a blocking action is being performed in the background. A throbber, also known as a loading icon, is an animated graphical control element used to show that a computer program is performing an action in the background (such as downloading content, conducting intensive calculations or communicating with an external device).

  4. Wagon-wheel effect - Wikipedia

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    The wagon-wheel effect (alternatively called stagecoach-wheel effect) is an optical illusion in which a spoked wheel appears to rotate differently from its true rotation. The wheel can appear to rotate more slowly than the true rotation, it can appear stationary, or it can appear to rotate in the opposite direction from the true rotation ...

  5. Burnout (vehicle) - Wikipedia

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    A burnout (also known as a peel out, power brake, or brakestand) is the practice of keeping a vehicle stationary and spinning its wheels, the resultant friction causing the tires to heat up and smoke. While the burnout gained widespread popularity in California, it was first created by Buddy Houston, his brother Melson and David Tatum II at Ted ...

  6. Inertial response - Wikipedia

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    Inertial response is a property of large synchronous generators, which contain large synchronous rotating masses, and which acts to overcome any immediate imbalance between power supply and demand for electric power systems, typically the electrical grid.

  7. How to Use a Color Wheel to Get Perfect Color Pairings Every Time

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    There's a reason interior designers swear by these color charts. Use this guide on how to use a color wheel for complementary colors in your next project.

  8. Fitness proportionate selection - Wikipedia

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    Usually a proportion of the wheel is assigned to each of the possible selections based on their fitness value. This could be achieved by dividing the fitness of a selection by the total fitness of all the selections, thereby normalizing them to 1. Then a random selection is made similar to how the roulette wheel is rotated.

  9. Spinning wheel (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn. Spinning wheel may also refer to: "Spinning Wheel" (song), a song by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears; Spinning Wheel, a 1984 Chinese film; Spinning wheel (animation), a type of throbber in computer graphics; Spinning Wheel (Asheville, North Carolina), a historic building