While this greatly increased the station's footprint across western Washington, it resulted in a somewhat weaker signal in the northern and eastern portions of the market.

While Nick Studios was in production there were many orange benches scattered around the facility, incorporating shapes like a human footprint, carrot, finger, cruise ship, wave, cloud, etc., reflecting the network's station IDs.

While Vauxhall had retained the Astra name, this generation was the first to be called Astra by Opel ( succeeding the Kadett E ), and the first to also be sold by Holden.

While the Astra F finished production in Germany in 1998, Polish-built Astras remained on offer in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Turkey, with the name Astra Classic from 1998 to 2002.

While the Vectra C has been sold in Mexico and Chile as the Chevrolet Vectra, it is not marketed in Brazil, where Chevrolet opted to sell the Astra H under the Vectra brand since October 2005, keeping the Astra G as the cheaper option.

While there, Darv and Astra are kidnapped by what remains of The Solaric Empire-an organisation that colonised the Solar System.

While DT64 broadcast throughout former East Germany, Sputnik is available on FM only in three of the five Federal states which replaced the GDR ; it is available throughout Europe on satellite radio via the Astra satellite.

While active, most of Astra 2D's transponders were used to provide television channels available on the Sky Digital satellite service to the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland and the non-subscription service, Freesat.

While arcade games were still relatively popular during the 1990s, this type of media saw a continuous decline in popularity in the Western world when video game consoles made the transition from 2D to 3D.

While early accelerators focused on improving the performance of 2D GUI systems, most modern accelerators focus on producing 3D imagery in real time.

While enemies, innocents, and explosions are 2D digitized video sprites, the levels and vehicles are pre-rendered in 3D.

While third-party game engines were not common up until the rise of 3D computer graphics in the 1990s, there were several 2D game creation systems produced in the 1980s for independent video game development.

While conventional ( 2D visible light ) imaging is most commonly used in MV, alternatives include imaging various infrared bands, line scan imaging, 3D imaging of surfaces and X-ray imaging.

While some have speculated that shipping the " Rampage " might have saved 3dfx, the fact remains that the company never mastered the new concept of relatively cheap, high-performance designs with integrated 3D acceleration, which was rapidly becoming the de facto standard of PC graphics vise 2D.

While generally considered well validated the technique is time consuming and limited by the accuracy with which the CSA can be calculated, which is a function of the frequency of the 2D ultrasound beam.

While cell phone cameras without auto-focus are not ideal for reading some common barcode formats, there are 2D barcodes which are optimized for cell phones, as well as QR Codes and Data Matrix codes which can be read quickly and accurately with or without auto-focus.

While there were games prior that had used three dimensional environments, such as Virtua Racing and Star Fox, it was in this era that many game designers began to move traditionally 2D and pseudo-3D genres into 3D.

While many window managers ( such as Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager, the X Window System based Compiz, and Mac OS X through Core Animation ) can utilize 3D effects, these merely augment a conventional 2D environment.

While glare has been analyzed in 2D image space ( Talvala 2007 ), it is useful to identify it as a 4D ray-space phenomenon ( Raskar 2008 ).

While Blazing Star was superior in many respects to previous shooter games, some fans compare it unfavorably with Pulstar on the basis that Blazing Star was overly easy and there are those that prefer the simpler 2D sprite look over the prerendered sprites that came to dominate many of the more recent shoot-em-ups.

While 3D graphics were considered initially, The Behemoth decided nothing compared to the traditional 2D stylings of the prototype.

While the graphics in Strider 2 now consist of 2D character sprites overlaid over 3D backgrounds, its gameplay remains similar to its 2D side-scrolling predecessor.

While the normal 2D radar provides range and azimuth, the 3D radar provides elevation information with range and azimuth.

While the earlier products such as the TRIO range were 2D only, later 3D functionality was added with the ViRGE and then Savage cards.

While older hand held systems would often abandon 3D environments entirely in favor of easier to render 2D sprites, the Game Boy Color received a relatively faithful version of the home console game.

While it has an option to zoom in, it does not allow for any rotation due to the 2D artwork still incorporated, and the way the map is constructed.

While the game never received an official release, the idea of Capcom's own characters in a crossover game would instead be used in the 2D fighting game, Capcom Fighting Evolution ; released in 2004.

While New Super Mario Bros. is seen in 2D, some of the characters and objects are 3D polygonal renderings on 2D backgrounds, resulting in a 2. 5D effect that visually simulates 3D computer graphics.

In a hands-on preview of the game, IGN found it to be a very generic role-playing title, remarking that " While Grandia didn't look or play poorly, there was nothing here that differentiated itself from all the rest of the big-headed, overhead, 2D RPGs that were on the Game Boy Color ".

) While the Voodoo did become the accelerator of choice for high-budget 3D / gamers, the V1000's triangle setup and integrated 2D / VGA core attracted many gamers looking to upgrade on a modest budget.

While an unlicensed satellite dish can often be identified easily, satellite radio receivers are much more compact and can rarely be easily identified, at least not without flagrantly violating provisions against unreasonable search and seizure in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

While motivated by the increase in the number of students attending college and a growing national sense that U. S. scientists were falling behind scientists in the Soviet Union, it was arguably catalyzed by early Soviet success in the Space Race, notably the launch of the first-ever satellite, Sputnik, the year before.

While females move between satellite territories of different males, they appear to remain within the same territories for most of their lives, mating with the same or closely related males over the course of their life span.

While this force in the rigid model depends only on the radius r of the satellite, in the fluid case we need to consider all the points on the surface and the tidal force depends on the distance Δd from the center of mass to a given particle projected on the line joining the satellite and the main body.

While in Europe many primarily-FM radio stations provide an additional unencrypted satellite feed, there are also subscription based digital packages of numerous channels that do not broadcast terrestrially, notably in the US.

While Luxemburg died in the German Revolution, the reformists soon found themselves contending with the Bolsheviks and their satellite communist parties for the support of the proletariat.

" While the Soviet Union had already annexed several occupied countries as ( or into ) Soviet Socialist Republics, other countries in eastern Europe that it occupied were converted into Soviet-controlled satellite states, such as the People's Republic of Poland, the People's Republic of Hungary, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the People's Republic of Romania, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the People's Republic of Albania, and later East Germany from the Soviet zone of German occupation.

While the composition of these satellite Chinatowns are as varied as the original, the political turmoils in the Manhattan Chinatown ( Tongs vs. Republic of China loyalists vs. People's Republic of China loyalists vs. Americanized ) have led to some factionalization in the other satellites.

While the system was operational, at least ten satellites – one spare for each satellite in the basic constellation – were usually kept in orbit.

While this satellite is technically Piedmont ( 29673 ), Powdersville may be used as an address.

While celestial navigation is becoming increasingly redundant with the advent of inexpensive and highly accurate satellite navigation receivers ( GPS ), it was used extensively in aviation until the 1960s, and marine navigation until quite recently.

While the satellite receiver radio service is its primary product, XM operates several audio and data services, and advertising.

While Sky is the biggest satellite service in Ireland, it is by no means the only satellite broadcasts available.

While EchoStar's lawsuit against Microsoft was in process, DirecTV ( presumptively acquired by EchoStar, and in control by EchoStar ) dropped UltimateTV ( thus ending Microsoft's satellite product initiatives ) and picked TiVo's DirecTV product as its only Digital Video Recorder offering.

While many other universities have law and business schools or satellite campuses within the central business district, the University of Adelaide is unique among Australian sandstone universities for having its main presence adjacent to the main business and shopping precinct.

While much of its operation is secret, Pine Gap is known to be involved in numerous military satellite operations.

While the X-Men attacked Asteroid M to rescue Moira and stop Magneto's plans, the Soviets launched a particle beam satellite which destroyed Asteroid M. Betrayed and abandoned at the last minute by Cortez, Magneto refused Xavier's pleas to escape with the X-Men back to Earth and he and his followers seemingly perished in the subsequent explosion.

While working on a satellite packet network project, he came up with the initial ideas for what later became the Transmission Control Protocol ( TCP ), which was intended as a replacement for an earlier network protocol, NCP, used in the ARPANET.

While television from Spain is easily received and widely watched, the availability of British television via satellite, particularly Sky and the BBC, means that Gibraltarians are as familiar with British news and popular culture as people in the UK itself.

While construction continued on the permanent campus, classes continued to be held at the former SDSU satellite location on Los Vallecitos Boulevard.

While the Super-Juno program was being drawn up, preparations were underway for the first satellite launch as the US contribution to the International Geophysical Year in 1957.