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In other words, a translucent material is made up of components with different indices of refraction. A transparent material is made up of components with a uniform index of refraction. [1] Transparent materials appear clear, with the overall appearance of one color, or any combination leading up to a brilliant spectrum of every color.
Lithophane of Frederick the Great, lit from front.After a well known painting by Julius Schrader (1849). [1] The same lithophane, backlit. A lithophane is a thin plaque of translucent material, normally porcelain, which has been moulded to varying thickness, such that when lit from behind the different thicknesses show as different shades, forming an image.
Onionskin or onion skin is a thin, lightweight, strong, often translucent paper, [1] named for its resemblance to the thin skins of onions. [2] It was usually used with carbon paper for typing duplicates in a typewriter , for permanent records where low bulk was important, or for airmail correspondence. [ 3 ]
Definition [ edit ] In the field of lexical semantics , semantic transparency (in adjective form: semantically transparent) is a measure of the degree to which the meaning of a multimorphemic combination can be synchronically related to the meaning of its constituents .
Transparency in PDF was designed not to cause errors in PDF viewers that did not understand it – they would simply display all elements as fully opaque. However, this was a two-edged sword as users with older viewers, PDF printers, etc. could see or print something completely different from the original design.
Aluminium oxynitride (marketed under the name ALON by Surmet Corporation [3]) is a transparent ceramic composed of aluminium, oxygen and nitrogen.Aluminium oxynitride is optically transparent (≥80% for 2 mm thickness) in the near-ultraviolet, visible, and mid-wave-infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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The distinction between promotional and fine art duratrans is purely in the subject matter of the artwork imaged onto the duratrans film. There is no other defining difference, except that possibly a fine art duratrans may be processed using higher resolutions, color depths, and/or other fabrication tolerances to effect a higher-precision result, for a more-demanding audience.