Besides the ordinary bright field image, a phase shift image is created.

In reflection mode, the phase shift image provides a relative distance measurement and thus represents a topography map of the reflecting surface.

In transmission mode, the phase shift image provides a label-free quantitative measurement of the optical thickness of the specimen.

By that time, Blur had undergone an ideological and image shift intended to celebrate their English heritage in contrast to the popularity of American grunge bands like Nirvana.

Due to the shift in the Big Three's strategy, many long-running cars like the Ford Taurus, Buick Century and Pontiac Grand Prix fell behind their Japanese competitors in features and image ( relying more on fleet sales instead of retail and / or heavy incentive discounts ); some were discontinued.

This coating corrects for the difference in geometric phase between the two paths so both have effectively the same phase shift and no interference degrades the image.

The video marked a pivotal shift towards a more glamorous and sexual image, which contrasted with the tomboyish style of their earlier work.

By that time, Blur had undergone an ideological and image shift intended to celebrate their English heritage in contrast to the popularity of American grunge bands like Nirvana.

Commercially available color film stock is subject to reciprocal failure over long exposures, in which sensitivity to light of different wavelengths appears to drop off as the exposure time increases, leading to color shift in the image.

The image will shift in color and even disappear, depending on the angle at which it is held.

Kuhn used the expression paradigm shift ( see below ) for this process, and likened it to the perceptual change that occurs when our interpretation of an ambiguous image " flips-over " from one state to another.

This large image circle enables either large tilt & shift movements with a view camera, or a wide field of view.

The picture is a color coded image of the Doppler effect | doppler shift of the line, which may be associated with the Corona | coronal plasma velocity towards or away from the satellite camera.

There is often ( here also ) glide plane symmetry: the mirror image with respect to the vertical center plane corresponds to a shift by one step.

The advent of custom image viewers developed by groups within the artscene, such as ACiD View and iCEView, began to shift the perception of how VGA art should be distributed and what the accepted practice should be.

The image on the paper can also shift from page to page which is called a bounce, which is generally off by a hairline on an offset press, but can be quite large on lower end equipment such as a copier or a duplicator press.

The colors in the image can be inverted by pressing control key + shift key + I.

Each picture is focused by a separate lens, and the two lenses are inclined so as to shift the images toward each other and thus ensure the visual blending of the two images into one three-dimensional image.

By alternating actual and mental shifting over an image, Bates wrote, many patients were quickly able to shorten the " shift " to a point where they could " conceive and swing a letter the size of a period in a newspaper.

Music journalists ascribed the song's underperformance to a resistance from Canadian radio programmers and audiences, because the song represented such a dramatic shift from Morissette's established image as a dance-pop teen star.

) Although noise reduction techniques exist, they also increase other audio distortions such as azimuth shift, wow and flutter, print-through and stereo image shift.

If an object is large and thus covering a large angle, the eyes must constantly shift their gaze to subsequently bring different portions of the image into the fovea ( as in reading ).

Illustration by Gilbert Wilkinson of Miss Marple from the December 1927 issue of The Royal Magazine and the first-known image of the character ( See The Thirteen Problems # First publication of stories | The Thirteen Problems )

The scene in which, returning to her apartment, Bardot's character is harangued in the elevator by a middle-aged cleaning lady calling her offensive names, was based on an actual incident, and is a resonant image of celebrity in the mid-20th century.

For example, during the 1980s, character ' Ron Headrest ' served as a doppelgänger for Ronald Reagan and was depicted as a computer-generated artificial-intelligence, an image based on the television character Max Headroom.

" An image of the lead character either appeared above or below the rectangle.

Literary scholars have identified characteristics of Margaret Mitchell's first husband, Berrien " Red " Upshaw, in the character of Rhett, while another sees the image of Italian actor, Rudolph Valentino.

William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Time of Your Life ( 1939 ) includes a colorful character, an old man, based on the image and reputation of Kit Carson.

On the campaign trail, St-Laurent's image was developed into somewhat of a ' character ' and what is considered to be the first ' media image ' to be used in Canadian politics.

Jean showed how the unwavering trust of Jef, the faithful Pierrot prototype, transforms his scandalously adulterous wife into his idealized image of her, while Domino presented another unfaithful wife who pays a gigolo to make a pretense of courting her so as to distract her husband from her real lover, but the gigolo manages to act his character with such pretend sincerity that she winds up falling in love with this fictional persona.

" Brando's powerful ' Wild One ' image was still as of 2011 being marketed by the makers of his Triumph Thunderbird motorcycle in a range of clothing inspired by his character from the film and licenced by Brando's estate

* Optical character recognition ( OCR ): Given an image representing printed text, determine the corresponding text.

All of the text was entered manually until 1989 when image scanners and optical character recognition software improved and became more widely available, which made book scanning more feasible.

Often in a pan and scan telecast, a character will seem to be speaking offscreen, when what has really happened is that the pan and scan technique has cut his image out of the screen.

Such a player character is more properly an avatar as the player character's name and image typically have little bearing on the game itself.

Each time the user is required to authenticate, they look for the images that fit their pre-chosen categories and enter the randomly generated alphanumeric character that appears in the image to form the one-time password.

Shakespeare uses the image of Proteus to establish the character of his great royal villain Richard III in the play Henry VI, Part Three, in which the future usurper boasts:

For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

CGI cutscenes are used to illustrate progress through the main objectives, although they are all essentially the same short piece of video, showing a computerised image of the player character as he moves through game's levels.

In the original Parc Place image, the glyph of the underscore character ( _ ) appeared as a left-facing arrow.

Leatherface has gained a reputation as a significant character in the horror genre, responsible for establishing the use of conventional tools as murder weapons and the image of a large, silent killer devoid of personality.

The image was also used on the character sheet for the Dwarf character in HeroQuest.

He produced " enigmatic and intricate mood pieces " and rejected action in favor of contemplation, focusing on image and design over character and story.