( This makes a contrast with whiteness, the impression of any combination of colors of light that equally stimulates all three types of color-sensitive visual receptors.

In contrast, lossy compression ( for example JPEG, or MP3 ) can achieve much higher compression ratios at the cost of a decrease in quality, as visual or audio compression artifacts from loss of important information are introduced.

In this case, the contrast appears largely to be conveyed with a difference in the voice onset time of the initial consonant as the configuration of the mouth is the same for and ; however, there is also a possible difference in duration, which visual analysis using high quality video supports.

Partial solar eclipses are hazardous to view because the eye's pupil is not adapted to the unusually high visual contrast: the pupil dilates according to the total amount of light in the field of view, not by the brightest object in the field.

The contrast between its bright white color and other media makes it very useful to the visual arts.

* Display contrast, of electronic visual displays

In addition, the eye and the visual system can be routinely and easily monitored for visual function and retinal structural changes after injections with noninvasive advanced technology, such as visual acuities, contrast sensitivity, fundus auto-fluorescence ( FAF ), dark-adapted visual thresholds, vascular diameters, pupillometry, electroretinography ( ERG ), multifocal ERG and optical coherence tomography ( OCT ).

( Navy blue was added to the color palette in 1987 " to provide better visual contrast to publications, merchandise and athletic uniforms.

However it is more common in aftermarket that visual aesthetics take on a more significant role in design than other types of sub drivers, including high contrast paint schemes, grill covers, translucent or refractive materials.

It is generally necessary to use a ‘ developer ’, usually a powder or chemical reagent, to produce a high degree of visual contrast between the ridge patterns and the surface on which a fingerprint has been deposited.

Finally, the group action on one side ( being the firing squad ), with the condemned standing opposite, presents a visual contrast that reinforces to all witnesses that solidarity is an overriding necessity in a military unit.

Cholinergic projections, in contrast, are dense even in the posterior cortical regions like the primary visual cortex.

The passive visual warnings involve the use of high contrast patterns.

Norcia and Tyler have used the technique to document the development of visual acuity and contrast sensitivity through the first years of life.

Both the visual style and many Inseries references deal with the atomic age optimism towards nuclear power and the stark contrast it creates to the post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Adding to the inner complexities of the picture and creating further visual interactions is the male dwarf in the foreground, whose raised hand echoes the gesture of the figure in the background, while his playful demeanour, and distraction from the central action, are in complete contrast with it.

Their result showed that when visual contrast of the image was increased, the HDR shape stayed the same but its amplitude increased proportionally.

Further on in the visual system, cells in V1 are thought to mutually inhibit, causing normalization of responses to contrast, a form of automatic gain control.

For this goal, the lightbox design provides strong visual contrast of the dialog over the rest of the visuals.

In contrast to other operations, CAT III weather minima do not provide sufficient visual references to allow a manual landing to be made.

An existing row of eucalyptus trees was preserved along the exposed wall of the house, providing some shading and a visual contrast with the house's bold facade.

When the roads required by the clearcutting were factored in, the increase in slide activity appeared to be about 5 times greater compared to nearby forested areas .< ref > Clearcutting can also lead to an increased possibility of rapid runoff, loss of economic sustainability in that no timber products are available for a long time after clearcutting, loss of habitat for some wildlife species, unattractive visual effect, greater possibility of unwanted shrub and grasses becoming established, as well as a decrease in property values ; diminished recreation, hunting, and fishing opportunities.

Moreover, variations in surface texture provide important visual cues to the orientation and slopes of surfaces, and the use of almost self-similar fractal patterns can help create natural looking visual effects.

When the styles and perianth parts are different colours, the visual effect is of a colour change sweeping along the spike.

They are often called costume dramas, since they emphasise the world of a period setting: historical pageantry, costuming and wardrobes, locale, spectacle, decor and a sweeping visual style.

A saccade is a fast eye motion, and because it is a motion that is optimised for speed, there is inevitable blurring of the image on the retina, as the retina is sweeping the visual field.

Ken Tucker in Entertainment Weekly stated that " in its length, scope, sweeping visual tableaux, and over-the-top passion, Wild Palms is more like an opera than a TV show.

Sometimes referred to as costume dramas, they depict the world of a period setting, often incorporating historical pageantry, specially designed costuming and wardrobes, exotic locales, spectacle, lavish decor and a sweeping visual style.

* This episode contains a number of visual homages to the Original Series episode " The City on the Edge of Forever ," including a Vulcan shown working on an electronics project in a kitchen, Mestral wearing a wool cap to cover his ears ( as Spock did in the TOS episode ), Mestral and T ' Mir raiding a clothesline for proper period apparel, and the Vulcans getting menial jobs much as James T. Kirk and Spock got jobs as labourers during their adventure ( Mestral and T ' Mir are both seen sweeping floors as Spock did ).

Down through the axis of the bridge there is a long diminishing vista like a visual echo of piers and arches, while the vaults fronting upstream and down frame the sunset and sunrise, the mountains and river pools.

D. W. Griffith went further than this, by creating the visual equivalent of the poetic or musical refrain in The Way of the World ( 1910 ), by cutting in shots of church bells at intervals down the length of the film.

The down side is that the resulting video stream will be larger in size because many keyframes were added when they were not necessary for the visual representation of the frame.

The Ramones ' 1976 Ramones ( album ) | debut album laid down the musical " blueprint for punk ," while its cover image had a similarly formative influence on punk visual style.

My belief that there is a bird in the tree outside my window might be accorded a result of the process of forming beliefs on the basis of sense-perception, of visual sense-perception, of visual sense-perception through non-opaque surfaces in daylight, and so forth, down to a variety of different very specifically described processes.

The sketchpad can be further broken down into a visual subsystem ( dealing with, for instance, shape, colour, and texture ), and a spatial subsystem ( dealing with location ).

Then a baritone voice took over, counted down from ten to zero and the visual showed the explosion of a nuclear bomb.

Each episode had an " opposites " segment, introduced by a visual effect of the screen flipping upside down, shifting left to fade to the next sketch, and then righting itself.

He also employed a special rig to rotate his piano end-over-end while he was playing it, though this of course is purely for visual effect, as a piano cannot operate as an instrument while upside down.

The Earps and Holliday walked west, down the south side of Fremont Street, out of visual range of the Cowboys, toward the Cowboys ' last reported location.

The best guess is Peterson flew directly into the blizzard, lost visual reference and accidentally flew down instead of up.

Imagery from the 1990s shows an additional approximately extending to the north from 17L / 35R, including a visual cue and centerline markings that extend about down the currently declared portion of the runway.

Human systems are broken down into visual, action and acoustic channels.

" Of the visual kei bands Luna Sea, whose members toned down their on-stage attire with on-going success, was either very successful, while Malice Mizer, La ' cryma Christi, Shazna, Janne Da Arc, and Fanatic Crisis also achieved commercial success in the late ' 90s.

The gatehouse that we continually return to as the ' home ' location for the storytelling serves as a visual metaphor for a gateway into the story, and the fact that the three men at the gate gradually tear it down and burn it as the stories are told is a further comment on the nature of the truth of what they are telling.

Variometers are strictly optional for R / C glider use — a skilled pilot can generally determine if their plane is going up or down via visual cues alone, and so the use of a variometer is often seen as a ` crutch ', as a replacement for skill, and many pilots prefer not to use them at all, as the tone can be distracting, and the ( usually small ) amount of weight added to the plane does affect performance.

Architecturally, it is thought that if the main aisle of the cathedral where it meets the cross section were not tilted slightly off its axis, a person who looked straight down the aisle could experience a slight visual distortion, rendering the building shorter than it is, much like looking down railroad tracks.

This can be done by simple visual methods such as looking down the optical assembly with no eyepiece to make sure the components are lined up, by using a Cheshire eyepiece, or with the assistance of a simple laser collimator or autocollimator.

Loomis also made a significant contribution to the development of ground-controlled approach technology, a precursor of today's instrument-landing systems that used radar to enable ground controllers to " talk down " aircraft pilots and help them to land safely when poor visibility made visual landings difficult or impossible.

The live-action part of the scene was filmed at LaSalle Street, and due to the lack of scenery for part of the drive down LaSalle Street, the background of Balbo Drive was included with the use of visual effects.

A good visual representation of the duffek in real life is thinking about someone running down a sidewalk, grasping a pole on the sidewalk and swinging around it with legs outstretched to end up running in the other direction, momentum intact.

These extra keys are sometimes hidden under a small hinged lid that can be flipped down to cover the keys in order to avoid visual disorientation in a pianist unfamiliar with the extended keyboard.