The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B.C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow -- which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions -- and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious influences.

Black is the color of mourning, and since Cretan families are notionally considered so extended as to include great-grandparents or second cousins ( although they may have little actual contact ) as well as all their respective in-laws, one is theoretically justified to be in continuous mourning for some relative or other, however distant.

Douglass responded to the criticisms by saying that his first marriage had been to someone the color of his mother, and his second to someone the color of his father.

The first player places 3 stones ( 2 black 1 white, if black goes first ) on the board, the second player has the choice to take black / white or place 2 more stones to change the shape and let the first player choose color.

* The " New Age Prophetess ", Alice A. Bailey, in her system called the Seven Rays which classifies humans into seven different metaphysical psychological types, the " second ray " of " Love-Wisdom " is represented by the color indigo.

When an object changes its color smoothly, the animation can be defined by keyframes — the first showing its original color, and the second showing its final color.

Because changing ink color in a mimeograph could be a laborious process, involving extensively cleaning the machine or, on newer models, replacing the drum or rollers, and then running the paper through the machine a second time, some fanzine publishers experimented with techniques for painting several colors on the pad, notably Shelby Vick, who created a kind of plaid " Vicolor.

In 1953 a second modified version of the NTSC standard was adopted, which allowed color television broadcasting compatible with the existing stock of black-and-white receivers.

It used a rotating color wheel, reduced the number of scan lines from 525 to 405, and increased the field rate from 60 to 144, but had an effective frame rate of only 24 frames per second.

NTSC color encoding is used with the system M television signal, which consists of 29. 97 interlaced frames of video per second.

The color of the pixel now depends on the colors of the first and second diffuse surface and the color of the light emitted from the light source.

Because of this compatibility requirement, color standards added a second signal to the basic monochrome signal, which carries the color information.

Following a pan-European agreement to introduce color TV only in 625 lines, France had to start the conversion by switching over to a 625-line television standard, which happened at the beginning of the 1960s with the introduction of a second network.

Michaels and Lampley were joined by analysts O. J. Simpson ( who would normally have been the second color commentator ) and Tom Landry.

To work with a second color, a second needle is used. Although needle tatting looks similar to shuttle tatting, it differs in structure and is slightly thicker and looser because both the needle and the thread must pass through the stitches.

On 2 January 2001, a second series named Bill and Ben began on CBBC on BBC Two, this time involving stop-motion animation, 35mm film style and full color, and made by Cosgrove Hall Films with a team of ten animators.

In the second quarter of 1985, X acquired color support to function in the DEC VAXstation-II / GPX, forming what became version 9.

* The only nation ever to use the color violet in its flag was the second Spanish republic.

Two clotted balls the color of mucus rolled between fiery lids.

As far as the color problem is concerned, there is but one great difference between the Southern white and the Northerner: the Southerner remembers, historically and in his own psyche, a kind of Eden in which he loved black people and they loved him.

It was done with great taste, was big and spacious, sumptuous as the dreams of any peasant in its courtly costumes, but sumptuous in a muted, pastel-like style, with rich, quiet harmonies of color between the costumes themselves and between the costumes and the scenery.

In a 2D image element, which stores a color for each pixel, additional data is stored in the alpha channel with a value between 0 and 1.

The graphics resolution, color palette assignments, and background color can be adjusted in between scanlines.

Ptolemy described Arcturus as subrufa " slightly red ", and it has a B-V color index of + 1. 23, roughly midway between Pollux ( B-V + 1. 00 ) and Aldebaran ( B-V + 1. 54 ).

Lennon's first wife Cynthia Powell lightened her hair color to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in A Twist of Lennon.

Most psychologists and neuroscientists have not accepted these arguments — nevertheless it is clear that the relationship between a physical entity such as light and a perceptual quality such as color is extraordinarily complex and indirect, as demonstrated by a variety of optical illusions such as neon color spreading.

Nearly every human society throughout history has expected distinctions to be made between males and females by the style, color, or type of clothing they are expected to wear, and likewise most societies have had a set of social norms, views, guidelines, or even laws defining what type of clothing is appropriate for each gender.

* Dot pitch is the distance between subpixels of the same color in millimeters.

This opinion is shared by the font designer Thomas Phinney, program manager for fonts and core technologies at Adobe Systems: " There is also considerable variation between individuals in their sensitivity to color fringing.

The changes between Exile III and Blades of Exile were more subtle and were again of the color and style nature.

Set the color of nodes between w and e to replacement-color.

Since quarks make up the baryons and the mesons, and the strong interaction takes place between baryons and mesons, one could say that the color force is the source of the strong interaction, or that the strong interaction is like a residual color force that extends beyond the baryons, for example when protons and neutrons are bound together in a nucleus.

* Efforts to improve fairness by reducing first-move advantage include the rule of swap, generalizable as " swap -( x, y, z )" and characterizable as a partially compounded and partially iterated version of the pie rule (" one person slices ; the other chooses "): One player places on the board x stones of the first-moving color and a lesser number y stones of the second-moving color (" slicing " in the pie metaphor ); the other player is entitled to choose between a ) playing from the starting position, in which case the selecting player is also entitled to choose which color to play, and b ) placing z ( usually-y ) + 1 ) more stones on the board at locations of that player's choice (" reslicing " in the pie metaphor, with limitations created by the board's existing setup akin to limitations arising from the existing slices in the pie ), in which case the former player is entitled to choose which color side to play.

When iodine is dissolved in polar solvents which are strong donor solvents such as ketones, ethers, pyridine, the formation of charge-transfer complex leads to modification of the energy gap between the two molecular orbitals, thus different wavelengths were absorbed and iodine has different color in solvents with different polarity.

The color is placed on the electromagnetic spectrum between about 420 and 450 nm in wavelength, placing it between blue and violet.

Specific staining by DEAE-cellulose treated Af and Af, although clearly distinguishable under the microscope from either nonspecific staining or autofluorescence of cells, was not satisfactorily photographed to show such differences in spite of many attempts with black and white and color photography.

It may establish the relation of the figure of the dancer to light and color, in which case changes in the light or color will set off a kaleidescope of visual designs.

While white is the coolest summer shade, there are lots of pastel hues along with tintable fabrics that will blend with any wardrobe color.

The volume of ADC cases will decrease, Martin reported, when the community is able to deal effectively with two problems: Relatively limited skills and discrimination in employment because of color.

`` When and if it can do so without jeopardizing constitutional and statutory tax-exemption privileges essential to the maintenance of its educational program and facilities, Emory University will consider applications of persons desiring to study or work at the University without regard to race, color or creed, continuing university policy that all applications shall be considered on the basis of intellectual and moral standards and other criteria designed to assure the orderly and effective conduct of the university and the fulfillment of its mission as an institution of Christian higher education ''.

A feature of the party will be a presentation by Welton Becket, center architect, of color slides and renderings of the three-building complex.

He predicts that this man will be able to divine the color of this particular shade of blue, despite the fact that he has never experienced it.

There is also an assignable background color, which will be visible wherever another object has not covered it up.

If a player is unsure of whether a bet is a single or multi-roll bet, it can be noted that all single-roll bets will be displayed on the playing surface in one color ( usually red ), while all multi-roll bets will be displayed in a different color ( usually yellow ).

This effectively triples the horizontal resolution of the image at normal viewing distances ; but the drawback is that the line thus drawn will show color fringes ( at some points it might look green, at other points it might look red or blue ).

While some judges choose to dismiss a dog of color, many choose to judge them and those who are actually judging the dog will look past the cosmetic color of a dog and judge the conformation of the dog first.

Acid-free, archival quality paper keeps its color and texture far longer than wood pulp based paper such as newsprint, which will turn yellow and become brittle much sooner.

If the emulsion is concentrated enough, the color will be distorted toward comparatively longer wavelengths, and will appear more yellow.

While black-and-white film has no color temperature itself, the silver halide grains themselves tend to be slightly more responsive to blue light, and therefore will have daylight and tungsten speeds-e. g.

A golden rectangle with longer side < span style =" color: blue ;"> a </ span > and shorter side < span style =" color: red ;"> b </ span >, when placed adjacent to a square with sides of length < span style =" color: blue ;"> a </ span >, will produce a Similarity ( geometry ) | similar golden rectangle with longer side < span style =" color: green ;"> a + b </ span > and shorter side < span style =" color: blue ;"> a </ span >.