" When Batman confronts Rohtul, he has one of his robots open a compartment that contains Quartz.

Quartz has several polymorphs, including tridymite and cristobalite at high temperatures, high-pressure coesite, and ultra-high pressure stishovite.

* UV Quartz has a usable wavelength of around 185 nm.

* ES Quartz has a usable wavelength range of 190 to 2, 000 nm,

* IR Quartz has a usable wavelength range of 220 to 3, 500 nm,

According to the Greater Antelope Valley Economic Alliance report of 2009 the Palmdale / Lancaster, CA Urbanized Area ( a US Census Bureau defined term ) has a population of 483, 998, which Quartz Hill is a part of.

QuickDraw still exists as part of the libraries of Mac OS X, but has been largely superseded by the more modern Quartz graphics system.

Quartz has a high melting point because many strong covalent bonds have to be broken.

Currently Mac OS X uses a somewhat more advanced window manager that has supported compositing since Mac OS X 10. 0, and was updated in Mac OS X 10. 2 to support hardware accelerated compositing via the Quartz Compositor.

Quartz monzonite ( or adamellite ) is an intrusive igneous rock that has an approximately equal proportion of orthoclase and plagioclase feldspars.

In its role as window manager, Quartz Compositor also has an event queue which receives events, such as key strokes and mouse clicks.

However, it has been possible to enable it, using the Quartz Debug application included in the Apple Developer Tools.

As of Mac OS X v10. 5 Quartz 2D Extreme has been renamed to QuartzGL-however it still remains disabled by default, as there are some situations where it can degrade performance, or experience visual glitches ; it is a per-application setting which can be turned on if the developer wishes.

Before the last two humanoid Daleks die, exhausted by their labours and the effects of radiation, it appoints itself as Emperor and has a special casing constructed to reflect its new rank, made from "... Flidor gold, Quartz and Arkellis flower sap ...".

Hardware-accelerated OpenGL window and desktop rendering, limited to using OpenGL for texture composition, has been in use in Mac OS X, in a technology called Quartz Extreme, since Mac OS X v10. 2.

Quartz also has a very low coefficient of thermal expansion which means that quartz resonators can produce stable frequencies over a wide temperature range.

Mac OS X has used hardware compositing since the introduction of Quartz Extreme into Mac OS X 10. 2.

Apple has embedded Quartz technologies deeply into the operating system.

Quartz Composer has many similarities to Max / MSP or Vvvv although its primary usage is for graphical rather than audio processing.

The ability to construct interactive video compositions that react to audio or MIDI signals but which can be played from any QuickTime-aware application has caused a great deal of interest in Quartz Composer from VJs.

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles is a 1990 book by Mike Davis examining how contemporary Los Angeles has been shaped by different powerful forces in its history.

In the Brecon Beacons, the Plateau Beds Formation is unconformably overlain by the Grey Grits Formation though further east these divisions are replaced by the Quartz Conglomerate Group which is itself subdivided into a variety of different formations.

Rendered images can be further processed by Core Image before being composed into a final scene with Quartz Compositor.

* Quartz sand laid down further in the basin became the Cherry Canyon Formation.

Mike Paquette, one of the authors of Quartz, explained why Apple did not move from Display PostScript to X, and chose instead to develop its own window server, by saying that once Apple added support for all the features it wanted to include into X11, it would not bear much resemblance to X11 nor be compatible with other servers anyway.

In 1979, the Yashica Contax 139 Quartz ( Japan ) introduced more precise digital piezoelectric quartz ( shortly followed by ceramic ) oscillator circuits ( ultimately under digital microprocessor control ) to time and sequence its entire exposure cycle – including its vertical FP shutter.

Quartz 2D is similar to NeXT's Display PostScript in its use of contexts.

Quartz ( and its renderer ) were first demonstrated at WWDC in May 1999.

With the release of Mac OS X 10. 2, marketing attention focused on Quartz Extreme, the composition layer, leaving the term " Quartz " to refer to the Core Graphics framework or just its 2D renderer.

QuickDraw GX was eventually " killed " with the purchase of NeXT and the eventual adoption of the Quartz imaging model in Mac OS X, but many of its component features lived on and are now standard in the current Macintosh platform.

The Gorman area is a part of the Antelope Valley Union High School District, but in 1996 just four of its 24 high school children traveled the to attend Quartz Hill High School in Lancaster, the closest high school in that district.

In managing individual windows, Quartz Compositor accepts a bitmap image of the window's contents from its renderer, along with its position.

The Northern Bitterroots encompass < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 1, 869 square miles ( 4, 841 km² )</ span > and its two tallest peaks are the < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 7, 930 foot ( 2, 417 m )</ span > Rhodes Peak and the < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 7, 770 foot ( 2, 368 m )</ span > Quartz Benchmark.

Contrary to other rasterizers, Quartz ignores any Postscript or TrueType hints in the font and solely relies on its own algorithm.

The Los Angeles Times architecture critic, Christopher Hawthorne, criticized " City of Quartz " for its " dark generalization and knee-jerk far-leftism ," but concluded that the book " is without question the most significant book on Los Angeles urbanism to appear since Reyner Banham's " Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies " was published in 1971.

Quartz Extreme only uses OpenGL commands, and requires a graphics card connected to an AGP 2X or faster bus ( including AGP 4X, 8X, and PCI Express ), supporting textures and maps of arbitrary size, since many of the renderers have no size limitation ( Quartz 2D for example ).

Quartz crystal with chlorite inclusions from Minas Gerais, Brazil ( size: 4. 2 x 3. 9 x 3. 3 cm )

In Quartz Composer 3. 0, the connections between patches change color to indicate conversions that are taking place.

* Quartz framework grains are the dominate minerals in most sedimentary rocks ; this is because they have exceptional physical properties, such as hardness and chemical stability.

Quartz crystals are also found inside test and measurement equipment, such as counters, signal generators, and oscilloscopes.

Quartz often occurs in drawn-out grains to such an extent that a particular form called quartz schist is produced.

The last names " Flintstone " and " Rubble ", as well as other common Bedrock surnames such as " Shale " and " Quartz ", are in line with these puns, as are the names of Bedrock's celebrities: " Gary Granite " ( Cary Grant ), " Stony Curtis " ( Tony Curtis ), " Ed Sulleyrock / Sulleystone " ( Ed Sullivan ), " Rock Pile / Quarry / Hudstone " ( Rock Hudson ), " Ann-Margrock " ( Ann-Margret ), " Jimmy Darrock " ( James Darren ), " Alvin Brickrock " ( Alfred Hitchcock ), " Perry Masonry / Masonite " ( Perry Mason as played by Raymond Burr ), " Mick Jadestone and The Rolling Boulders " ( Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones ), " Eppy Brianstone " ( Brian Epstein ) and " The Beau Brummelstones " ( The Beau Brummels ).

Darwin does not include many of the defining elements of Mac OS X, such as the Carbon and Cocoa APIs or the Quartz Compositor and Aqua user interface, and thus cannot run Mac applications.

They used it to accelerate multimedia applications such as QuickTime, iTunes and key parts of Apple's Mac OS X including in the Quartz graphics compositor.

They begin as prismatic quartz ( including the color sub-varieties such as Smoky Quartz and Amethyst ) in the quartz veins alongside the Delaware River that get eroded out of the host rock and wash down 200 miles to the shore.

MPlayer also supports a variety of different output drivers for displaying video, including VDPAU, the X video extension, OpenGL, DirectX, Direct3D, Quartz Compositor, VESA, Framebuffer, SDL and rarer ones such as ASCII art and Blinkenlights.

This implementation includes an XFree86 4. 4 based X11 window server, Quartz rootless window manager, libraries, and basic utilities such as xterm.

Quartz glassware is occasionally used in chemistry laboratories when standard borosilicate glass can not withstand high temperatures ; it is more commonly found as a very basic element, such as a tube in a furnace, or as a flask, the elements in direct exposure to the heat.

In addition, a number of Max-like programs exist which share the same concept of visual programming in realtime such as Quartz Composer ( by Apple ) and vvvv which are both focusing on realtime video synthesis and processing.

Quartz models such as the Breitling Aeromarine Colt start at $ 2, 055. 00 on a rubber strap, while mechanical models start at $ 3, 000 and may reach prices above $ 100, 000.

Quartz Compositor is the compositing engine used by Quartz 2D and other renderers, such as OpenGL, Core Image, and QuickTime.