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Transparency (philosophy)
Transparency, transparence or transparent most often refer to: * Transparency (optics), transmitting light (Note: Many of the articles listed below use "transparency" metaphorically, meaning that everything is visible, nothing is hidden.) Transparency may also refer to: Literal uses * Transparency (photography), a transparent photograph * Transparency (projection), for use with an overhead projector * Electromagnetically induced transparency Animals and plants * Fish species: ** Asiatic glassfish ** Transparent goby * White Transparent, a cultivar of apple Arts, entertainment, and media Music Groups and labels * Transparency (record label), North America * Transparent (band), New York, US Albums * Transparency (album), ''Transparency'', by the Herb Robertson Quintet, 1985 * Transparent (Coil album), ''Transparent'', by Coil, 1984 * Transparent (LaRue album), ''Transparent'', by LaRue 2001 * Transparente (album), ''Transparente'', by Mariza, 2005 * ''Transparence'', by Markize, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transparency (optics)
In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable light scattering by particles, scattering of light. On a macroscopic scale (one in which the dimensions are much larger than the wavelengths of the photons in question), the photons can be said to follow Snell's law. Translucency (also called translucence or translucidity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material (with or without scattering of light). It allows light to pass through but the light does not necessarily follow Snell's law on the macroscopic scale; the photons may be scattered at either of the two interfaces, or internally, where there is a change in the index of refraction. In other words, a translucent material is made up of components with different indices of refraction. A transparent material is made up of components with a uniform index of refraction. Transparent m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SoFaygo
Andre Dontrel Burt Jr. (born October 3, 2001), better known by his stage name SoFaygo (formerly stylized as $ofaygo), is an American rapper and singer. His 2019 single, " Knock Knock", went viral on TikTok in late 2020 before it received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The following year, he guest appeared on Trippie Redd's song " MP5", which marked his first entry on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. He signed with fellow rapper Travis Scott's Cactus Jack Records to release his debut studio album, '' Pink Heartz'' (2022). Career 2018–2019: Beginnings Burt recorded his first song at nine years old in a friend's basement. He began to pursue music more seriously in his teenage years, while attending Etowah High School. Burt went by the stage name Trvllinese prior to releasing the EP ''We Are Aliens'' in 2018. Burt released his debut mixtape ''War'' in 2019. Soon after, he began amassing a local fanbase. This popularity led him to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Location Transparency
In computer networks, location transparency is the use of names to identify network resources, rather than their actual location. For example, files are accessed by a unique file name, but the actual data is stored in physical sectors scattered around a disk in either the local computer or in a network. In a location transparency system, the actual location where the file is stored doesn't matter to the user. A distributed system will need to employ a networked scheme for naming resources. The main benefit of location transparency is that it no longer matters where the resource is located. Depending on how the network is set, the user may be able to obtain files that reside on another computer connected to the particular network. This means that the location of a resource doesn't matter to either the software developers or the end-users. This creates the illusion that the entire system is located in a single computer, which greatly simplifies software development. An additional be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudo-transparency
''Pseudo-transparency'' is a term used for X Window System clients that simulate the appearance of translucency or transparency by manipulating the same pixmap that has been drawn on the root window, or by instructing the X Server that the Background Pixmap should be inherited from the window's parent. Purpose Traditionally, the X Window System has lagged behind other windowing systems in adding purely eye candy or aesthetic features, such as window translucency. This has encouraged developers to develop kludges to overcome this limitation. This pseudo-transparency, so called as the background pixmap of the root window is visible (analogous to desktop wallpaper) rather than any obscured windows, allows users to make windows look less imposing (such as Terminal emulators, which usually comprise large chunks of text), and to integrate the appearance of windows with their desktop themes. Implementation There are three common methods for achieving pseudo-transparency using Xlib, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transparency (graphic)
Transparency in computer graphics is possible in a number of file formats. The term " transparency" is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is "full transparency" i.e. something that is completely invisible. Only part of a graphic should be fully transparent, or there would be nothing to see. More complex is "partial transparency" or "translucency" where the effect is achieved that a graphic is partially transparent in the same way as colored glass. Since ultimately a printed page or computer or television screen can only be one color at a point, partial transparency is always simulated at some level by mixing colors. There are many different ways to mix colors, so in some cases transparency is ambiguous. In addition, transparency is often an "extra" for a graphics format, and some graphics programs will ignore the transparency. Raster file formats that support transparency include GIF, PNG, WebP, BMP, TIFF, TGA and JPEG 2000, through e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Image Mask
In computer science, a mask or bitmask is data that is used for bitwise operations, particularly in a bit field. Using a mask, multiple bits in a byte, nibble, word, etc. can be set either on or off, or inverted from on to off (or vice versa) in a single bitwise operation. An additional use of masking involves predication in vector processing, where the bitmask is used to select which element operations in the vector are to be executed (mask bit is enabled) and which are not (mask bit is clear). Common bitmask functions Masking bits to 1 To turn certain bits on, the bitwise OR operation can be used, following the principle that for an individual bit Y, Y OR 1 = 1 and Y OR 0 = Y. Therefore, to make sure a bit is on, OR can be used with a 1. To leave a bit unchanged, OR is used with a 0. Example: Masking ''on'' the higher nibble (bits 4, 5, 6, 7) while leaving the lower nibble (bits 0, 1, 2, 3) unchanged. 10010101 10100101 OR 11110000 11110000 = 11110101 1111 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpha Compositing
In computer graphics, alpha compositing or alpha blending is the process of combining one image with a background to create the appearance of partial or full transparency. It is often useful to render picture elements (pixels) in separate passes or layers and then combine the resulting 2D images into a single, final image called the composite. Compositing is used extensively in film when combining computer-rendered image elements with live footage. Alpha blending is also used in 2D computer graphics to put rasterized foreground elements over a background. In order to combine the picture elements of the images correctly, it is necessary to keep an associated '' matte'' for each element in addition to its color. This matte layer contains the coverage information—the shape of the geometry being drawn—making it possible to distinguish between parts of the image where something was drawn and parts that are empty. Although the most basic operation of combining two images is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Network Transparency
Network transparency refers to the ability of a protocol to transmit data over the network in a manner which is not observable to those using the applications that are using the protocol. In this way, users of a particular application may access remote resources in the same manner in which they would access their own local resources. An example of this is cloud storage, where remote files are presented as being locally accessible, and cloud computing where the resource in question is processing. X Window The term is often partially correctly applied in the context of the X Window System, which is able to transmit graphical data over the network and integrate it seamlessly with applications running and displaying locally; however, certain extensions of the X Window System are not capable of working over the network. Databases In a centralized database system, the only available resource that needs to be shielded from the user is the data (that is, the storage system). In a dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transparency (telecommunication)
In telecommunications, ''transparency'' can refer to: #The property of an entity that allows another entity to pass through it without altering either of the entities. #The property that allows a transmission system or channel to accept, at its input, unmodified user information, and deliver corresponding user information at its output, unchanged in form or information content. The user information may be changed internally within the transmission system, but it is restored to its original form prior to the output without the involvement of the user. #The quality of a data communications system or device that uses a bit-oriented link protocol that does not depend on the bit sequence structure used by the data source. Some communication systems are not transparent. Non-transparent communication systems have one or both of the following problems: * user data may be incorrectly interpreted as internal commands. For example, modems with a Time Independent Escape Sequence or 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transparency (human–computer Interaction)
Any change in a computing system, such as a new feature or new component, is transparent if the system after change adheres to previous external interface as much as possible while changing its internal behaviour. The purpose is to shield from change all systems (or human users) on the other end of the interface. Confusingly, the term refers to overall ''invisibility'' of the component, it does not refer to ''visibility of component's internals'' (as in white box or open system). The term ''transparent'' is widely used in computing marketing in substitution of the term ''invisible'', since the term ''invisible'' has a bad connotation (usually seen as something that the user can't see, and has no control over) while the term ''transparent'' has a good connotation (usually associated with not hiding anything). The vast majority of the times, the term ''transparent'' is used in a misleading way to refer to the actual invisibility of a computing process, which is also described by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transparency (data Compression)
In data compression and psychoacoustics, transparency is the result of lossy data compression accurate enough that the compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input, i.e. perceptually lossless. A transparency threshold is a given value at which transparency is reached. It is commonly used to describe compressed data bitrates. For example, the transparency threshold for MP3 to linear PCM audio is said to be between 175 and 245 kbit/s, at 44.1 kHz, when encoded as VBR MP3 (corresponding to the -V3 and -V0 settings of the highly popular LAME MP3 encoder). This means that when an MP3 that was encoded at those bitrates is being played back, it is indistinguishable from the original PCM, and the compression is transparent to the listener. The term ''transparent compression'' can also refer to a filesystem feature that allows compressed files to be read and written just like regular ones. In this case, the compressor is typically a gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transparent (TV Series)
''Transparent'' is an American comedy-drama television series created by Joey Soloway for Amazon Studios that debuted on February 6, 2014. The story revolves around a Los Angeles family, the Pfeffermans, and their lives after learning that their parent ( Jeffrey Tambor) is a trans woman now going by the name Maura. ''Transparent'' tells the story of Maura's coming out, as well as her family's personal journeys in discovering their own identities and coming to terms with Maura's identity. ''Transparent'' moves away from a solely transition-centred narrative and represents Maura's story in her role as a trans parent, grandparent, professor, partner, ex-spouse, sibling, and as an older person transitioning. ''Transparent'' also includes other queer representation in the Pfefferman family. Sarah ( Amy Landecker) explores her sexuality and works through relationship dilemmas throughout season one while Ali ( Gaby Hoffmann) explores their gender and sexuality. ''Transparent''s first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
