" The official name is Philotic Parallax Instantaneous Communicator ," explains Colonel Graff in Ender's Game, " but somebody dredged the name ansible out of an old book somewhere.

Parallax is caused by a change in the position of the observer looking at a relatively nearby object, as measured against more distant objects, and is therefore dependent upon the distance between the observer and the object.

The observatory is the site of first contact between humans and Neanderthals in the Neanderthal Parallax science fiction series by Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer.

Created and produced by the Parallax Corporation, and manufactured under official license, its packaging is an imaginary concept of how Soylent Green might have been sold.

Parallax scrolling is a special scrolling technique in computer graphics, wherein background images move by the camera slower than foreground images, creating an illusion of depth in a 2D video game and adding to the immersion.

Many games used this technique for a scrolling star-field, but sometimes a more intricate or multi-directional effect is achieved, such as in the game Parallax by Sensible Software.

Parallax is a geometric effect: at the surface of the Earth we are offset from the line through the centers of Earth and Moon, and because of this we can observe a bit ( about 1 °) more around the side of the Moon when it is on our local horizon.

Parallax had been imprisoned within the Central Power Battery for billions of years and is the mysterious " Yellow Impurity " within the Corps ' green light that leaves them vulnerable against yellow.

The New Green Lantern Corps being built by the Guardians is far more formal and structured than the old one that was destroyed by Parallax.

When Krona along with the emotional entities launched his attack on Oa, attacking the six of the remaining Guardians ( Ganthet working in the Anti-Matter universe at the time ), by having them possessed by all the entities except for Parallax, who is placed inside the Central Power Battery.

Descent is a 3D first-person shooter video game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay in 1994.

Parallax Software released the source code to the original Descent and Descent II under the terms of a non-free source code license in which that all commercial or revenue-generating distribution is restricted.

Parallax mapping is one such extension.

The Parallax View is a 1974 American thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, Hume Cronyn and William Daniels.

The story concerns a reporter's dangerous investigation into an obscure organization, the Parallax Corporation, whose primary, but not ostensible, enterprise is political assassination.

The Parallax View is the second installment of Pakula's Political Paranoia trilogy, along with Klute ( 1971 ) and All the President's Men ( 1976 ); along with being the only film in the trilogy to not be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, The Parallax View is also the only film in the trilogy to not win, or be nominated for, an Academy Award.

Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War is a 1998 space combat simulation IBM PC compatible computer game developed by Volition, Inc. when it was split off from Parallax Software.

Inaugurated in 2005, the Carl Brandon Parallax Award is a juried award given annually to a work of speculative fiction in English written by a person of color and published in the year of the award.

Parallax mapping ( also called offset mapping or virtual displacement mapping ) is an enhancement of the bump mapping or normal mapping techniques applied to textures in 3D rendering applications such as video games.

With the yellow impurity returned to the Central Power Battery, all of the Green Lanterns — even the experienced wielders, with the apparent exception of the Green Lanterns who had been possessed by Parallax before — are placed under Krona's control, revealing that they could not overcome the fear associated with it as the Guardians had thought.

Jordan's grief over the destruction of Coast City let Parallax influence Jordan's subsequent murderous activity, his apparent killing of Sinestro ( actually a hard light construct ), and Jordan's destruction of the Central Power Battery.

Parallax, unfazed and unhurt, taunts Kyle once more with the hopelessness of his position and disappears.

Amon eventually has a confrontation with Hal Jordan himself, who had returned to his position as Green Lantern after being both resurrected and freed from the influence of Parallax.

In the War of the Green Lanterns, Krona, along with the emotional entities, launched an attack on Oa, attacking the six remaining Guardians ( with Ganthet working in the Anti-Matter universe at the time ), by having them possessed by all the entities, except for Parallax, who is placed inside the Central Power Battery.

His body was rebuilt by the Manhunters, and in addition, he recruited Superboy-Prime, the Cyborg Superman, and Parallax, who was using Kyle Rayner as its host, along with Sinestro as his heralds.

During the Zero Hour crisis, Grant's powers became the spark that restarted the universe after it was destroyed by Parallax ; thanks to Damage's powers, the new universe evolved along natural lines, guided by nature rather than the will of Parallax.

The Guardians of the Universe imprisoned Parallax within the Central Power Battery on Oa using fear's opposite energy, willpower, along with the aid of one of the fear's counterparts, Ion.

This, along with Hal's aid, allows Kyle to fight Parallax from within, and the two manage to escape from Parallax.

After Krona's defeat, Parallax escaped along with the other entities and is currently at large in the universe.

The 32-bit Parallax Propeller microcontroller architecture and the first chip were designed by two people in about 10 human years of work time.

The other two films in the trilogy are The Parallax View ( 1974 ) and All The President's Men ( 1976 ).

Long before this role, however, he played bad guys in two 1970s thrillers, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and The Parallax View.

In the fallout, the two regroup with Hal, Guy and Ganthet, using the full power of the emotional spectrum to crack open the Battery and release Parallax.

The screenplays for two of the best-known conspiracy thrillers were written by the same writer, Lorenzo Semple, Jr .: The Parallax View, directed by Alan J. Pakula, was released in 1974, while Sydney Pollack's Three Days Of The Condor entered release the following year.

In the fallout, the two regroup with Hal, Guy and Ganthet, using the full power of the emotional spectrum to crack open the Battery and release Parallax.

The company was created when Parallax Software ( developers of the Descent series ) was split in two, led by Mike Kulas in November 1996.

Parallax also affects optical instruments such as binoculars, microscopes, and twin-lens reflex cameras that view objects from slightly different angles.

Parallax measurements typically have an accuracy measured in milliarcseconds.

Parallax in point-lens events can best be measured in long-timescale events with a large -- from slow-moving, low mass lenses which are close to the observer.

Examples of well-known stars which are usually referred to by their Flamsteed numbers include 51 Pegasi ( see Extrasolar planet ), and 61 Cygni ( see Parallax ).

Directed by Ridley Scott and co-starring Russell Crowe and Vince Colosimo, DiCaprio dyed his hair brown and wore brown contacts for the role, which he chose to pursue because he considered it a throwback to political films in the 1970s such as The Parallax View ( 1974 ) and Three Days of the Condor ( 1975 ).

Two of the most important fallen Lanterns were Sinestro, the rogue Green Lantern, and Hal Jordan, who would unknowingly become possessed by Parallax, the ancient fear parasite trapped in the Battery.

At the ruins of his home Coast City, Jordan was consumed by grief, which in turn allowed him to be overcome by fear ... all the while not knowing that his fear was tainted by the creature Parallax.

Upon learning his future as Parallax ( not knowing, however, that his future self's actions was the result of being possessed by a fear entity under the machination of Sinestro's future self ) and aware that the future needed him to return to his own time and allow future events to unravel in the way it was supposed to, young Jordan knew he must forget everything he learned from the present, and gave Rayner a copy of his ring to restart the Green Lantern Corps in a bid to undo some of the damages he knew he was going to make once he returned to the past.

In an attempt to redeem himself after his actions as Parallax, Hal Jordan sacrificed his life reigniting the sun, whereupon Oa and the Central Power Battery were completely rebuilt by the physical manifestation of Jordan ’ s dying will channeled through his old friend and confidant Thomas Kalmaku.

It was later revealed that Hal Jordan had been possessed by the living embodiment of fear, an ancient parasite called Parallax.

Oa was destroyed shortly after Hal Jordan became Parallax, but was later reconstituted by Jordan's friend Thomas Kalmaku.

A bundle released on the one-year anniversary of the original game's debut, the Anniversary Edition featured Descent, the Levels Of The World add-on, and several additional levels created by Parallax.

This included Descent, the Levels Of The World add-on, and several additional levels created by Parallax.