Viewpoint

Viewpoint defines the location of the viewer’s eye in the 3D world, as a (x, y, z) triplet of numbers. To define what is finally seen, the “view direction” must also be ...

viewpoint

Medical; Health care; Medicine

Work consisting of a critical or explanatory note written to discuss, support, or dispute an article or other presentation previously published. It may take the form of an ...

populationist viewpoint

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The concept that only individuals have reality and that the type is illusory. Since no two individuals are exactly alike, variation underlies all existence.

rubber lens-mount gasket

Photography; Professional photography

A flexible rubber gasket that forms a seal between the lens and the camera body.

subject-to-camera distance information

Photography; Professional photography

The data supplied to the camera by the lens indicating the distance from the camera to the subject. This information makes possible advances like 3D Color Matrix Metering II and ...

vignetting

Photography; Professional photography

A loss of brightness or saturation at the periphery of an image; usually not desired, but sometimes used to create a vignette framing the subject at the center of the image.

special effects mode

Photography; Professional photography

A mode in which the user can create artistic results simply by adding special effects to still images and movies. To select an effect, the user rotates the mode dial to EFFECTS ...

still picture

Photography; Professional photography

A photograph (static image) as opposed to a movie (moving picture).

stop-motion

Photography; Professional photography

Generic term for an animation technique which makes static objects appear to move. This is done by recording each movement of the object as an individual frame, when each frame ...

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Jinping Xi

Widely expected to become the next leader of the People's Republic of China, Jinping Xi currently serves as the country's Vice President, top-ranking ...