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The pattern is based on the TAZ 90, and the black colour was replaced by a light brown, and is also designed to provide multispectral stealth properties (IR and radar). Telo mimetico: Woodland precursor: 1929: Italy, for shelter-halves, then uniforms. Oldest mass-produced camouflage pattern. [118] Tigerstripe: Tigerstripe: 1969 c.
Alpha mapping is used when the given object's transparency is not consistent: when the transparency amount is not the same for the entire object and/or when the object is not entirely transparent. If the object has the same level of transparency everywhere, one can either use a solid-color alpha texture or an integer value.
An arm ring, also known as an armlet or an armband, is a band of metal, usually a precious metal, worn as jewelry or an ornament around the biceps of the upper arm. The arm ring is similar to a bracelet or bangle , though it must be shaped and sized to fit snugly to the upper arm.
The settings often use gold or precious stones. Rock crystal vessels often have ha pear-shaped body, beaked rim, and a handle, which originally had a vertical thumb piece that connected the rim of the ewer to the lower part of the body. The designs on the ewer go around the neck and down the body and onto its handle.
The usekh broad collar was wrapped around and supported by the neck and shoulders. It is typically adorned with closely placed rows of colored stone beads, or it is made entirely of metal. The collars were connected with clasps of gold. [2] Over time, the broad collar went through many different variations of form.
Mosan armilla, enamelled gilt-copper, 1170s, now Germanisches Nationalmuseum.The pair in the Louvre is here The Monomachus Crown, possibly an armilla. An armill or armilla (from the Latin: armillae remains the plural of armilla) is a type of medieval bracelet, or armlet, normally in metal and worn in pairs, one for each arm.
In the Golden Age of Comics, the Amazons of Paradise Island are depicted wearing the bracelets as a symbol of submission to their patron goddess Aphrodite and, under the goddess's instruction, as a reminder to the Amazons of the folly of submitting to men and the resultant period when they were subjugated under the rule of the treacherous Hercules.