Other uses Taxobox name Puffin image Puffin002.jpg image width 250px image caption Atlantic Puffin s F ... Brisson , 1760 subdivision ranks Species subdivision Atlantic Puffin F. arctica Tufted Puffin F. cirrhata Horned Puffin F. corniculata For prehistoric species, see article text. Puffins are any of three ... among rocks or in burrows in the soil. Two species, the Tufted Puffin and Horned Puffin , are found in the North Pacific Ocean , while the Atlantic Puffin is found in the North Atlantic Ocean. All puffin species have predominantly black or black and white plumage, a stocky build, and large beak ... PuffinQuestions.html 9. title 26 Questions About Puffins work Project Puffin publisher ... place the Tufted Puffin in the genus Lunda . ref name harrison1 Harrison 1988 p. 406 ref The puffins ... to the black and white plumage, which resembles monasticism monastic robes. The English name puffin was originally applied to the Manx Shearwater which in 1652 was known as the Manks Puffin . Puffin is an Anglo Norman word Middle English pophyn or poffin ref name OED Cite encyclopedia title Puffin ... Manx Shearwaters. The Atlantic Puffin acquired the name much later, possibly because of its similar ... 90 233 &ndash 365. ref but were later reassigned to one Fratercula , the Tufted Puffin, and a Cerorhinca ... L. Clarke, J. A. month year 2007 title First Atlantic Record of the Horned Puffin genus Cerorhinca ... extinct species, Dow s Puffin Fratercula dowi was found on the Channel Islands of California until ... Pleistocene puffin Aves Alcidae from the southern California Channel Islands journal Proceedings of the 5th ... and binomial names width 12 Image width 35 Description width 35 Range Atlantic Puffin br Fratercula arctica center File Puffin Latrabjarg Iceland.jpg 500x160px center 32 cm 12.5 in long, with a 53 ... ref name harrison3 Harrison 1988 p.404 ref Horned Puffin br Fratercula corniculata center File Fratercula ... Harrison 1988 p.405 ref Tufted Puffin or Crested Puffin br Fratercula cirrhata center File TuftedPuffin.jpeg ... more details
Puffin Island is the name of several islands in a number of countries. In most cases the island has been so named because it has or used to have a colony of puffin s. Puffin Islands include Canada Puffin Island Baccalieu Tickle , Newfoundland and Labrador Puffin Island Greenspond , Newfoundland and Labrador Iceland Lundey Puffin Island , Reykjav k Ireland Puffin Island County Kerry United Kingdom Puffin Island Anglesey , Wales Lundy in the Bristol Channel may also be included, as its name means Puffin Island in Norse United States Puffin Island Alaska Puffin Island Maine Puffin Island Washington geodis ... more details
Puffins are stocky black and white pelagic seabirds in the genus Fratercula . Puffin or Puffins may also refer to Parnall Puffin experimental amphibious fighter reconnaissance biplane. Puffin aircraft Puffin aircraft , a NASA technology concept for a personal flying craft. Puffin Books , an imprint of Penguin Books specialising in children s literature Puffin Lightvessel Puffin unit of currency, from an unofficial coinage see Coins of Lundy Puffin crossing , a road safety feature Puffin, a fictional bird in The Swan Princess trilogy some of the butterflies in the genus Appias genus Appias Puffin Island disambig ... more details
Infobox publisher image Image Puffin Books logo.png parent Penguin Young Readers Group Penguin Group ... nasdaq url http www.puffin.co.uk www.puffin.co.uk Puffin Books is the children s imprint of British ... releases1 090403 puffinlogo.pdf Puffin Children s Books changes its logo for the first time in 40 ... founded by Allen Lane , the idea for Puffin Books was born in 1939 when Noel Carrington , at the time ... The History of Puffin ref ref http www.stellabooks.com articles puffinpicturebooks.php Puffin ... series were published the following year. The name puffin was a natural companion to the existing penguin ..., when Puffin secured the paperback rights to Barbara Euphan Todd s Worzel Gummidge , published in hardback in 1936, and brought it out as the first Puffin story book in 1941. The first Puffin Editor ... Puffin made its mark in fantasy with tales such as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ... were acquired by Puffin included The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett , the first children s fiction title to depict a working class home, which Puffin published in 1942, the Professor Branestawm ... 1960 . Many different genres featured in the list, e.g. The Puffin Song Book PS 100 , 1956. 1960s to 1970s In 1961 Kaye Webb became Puffin s second Editor, as a boom began in children s publishing, and in a decade the Puffin list grew from 151 titles when she took over to 1,213 in print by 1969. Puffin obtained the paperback rights to many of the best writers of the time, including Philippa ... were promoted with flair through the Puffin Club, started by Kaye Webb in 1967 with the promise to Allen ... and evolved into the schools only Puffin Book Club, at its height the club had 200,000 subscribers and held regular Puffin Exhibitions, and its magazine Puffin Post appeared quarterly for many years, resuming publication in January 2009. Webb continued as Editor until 1979, and the 1970s saw Puffin .... 1980s to 1990s The 1980s saw Puffin taking full advantage of popular culture with film tie in publishing ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Puffin Lightvessel was a lightvessel situated at Daunt Rock, 25 miles south west of Roche s Point near Cork city Cork harbour entrance and was in the care of the Commissioners of Irish Lights . It sank on October 8, 1896 in a hurricane . The crew of eight was lost. In August 1897, the wreck of the Puffin was towed into Cobh harbour. Category Transport in County Cork Ireland maritime stub ... more details
Taxobox name Atlantic Puffin image Atlantic Puffin.jpg image width 260px image caption Adults in breeding ... Puffin Fratercula species F. arctica binomial Fratercula arctica binomial authority Carl Linnaeus ... Puffin lang la Fratercula arctica is a seabird species in the auk family biology family ... coloured bill. Also known as the Common Puffin , it is the only puffin species which is found ... Puffin is the provincial bird for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador . Description The Atlantic Puffin is convert 26 29 cm in length beak bill 3 4 cm , with a convert 47 ... in courtship rituals, such as the pair tapping their bills together. ref Project Puffin http www.projectpuffin.org movies Puffin videos . Retrieved 2008 JAN 13. ref During flight, it appears to have ... Puffin Fratercula corniculata from the North Pacific looks very similar but has slightly different head ornaments. The Atlantic Puffin is typically silent at sea, except for soft purring sounds it sometimes ... s coastlines. The largest puffin colony in the western Atlantic estimated at more than 260,000 ... Bay Ecological Reserve . Retrieved 2008 JAN 13. ref Puffin viewing has also started to become popular ... Puffin include the Great Black backed Gull Larus marinus , the Great Skua Stercorarius skua , and similar sized species, which can catch a puffin in flight, or pick off one separated from the colony ... able to bring down a healthy adult puffin, take eggs or recently hatched chicks, and will also steal ... Lunga Treshnish Isles , Scotland Image Puffin attacks razorbill.ogv thumb Atlantic Puffin defending its burrow from a pair of Razorbills, Lundy The Atlantic Puffin is sexually mature at the age of 4 ... drop off in a molt. ref Cite NIE Puffin year 1905 ref Relationship with humans Image Fleygamenn Trongisv gur.jpg thumb Puffin hunters, Faroe Islands , 1898 or 1899 Image Stora dimun puffins for kitchen.jpg ..., the puffins principal prey. On the other hand, puffin numbers increased considerably in the late ... more details
File PuffinCrossing.jpg thumb right 100 Puffin control panel A pedestrian user friendly intelligent crossing puffin crossing is a type of pedestrian crossing in use in the United Kingdom . It differs from a pelican crossing , which this design is now replacing, in that the lights controlling the pedestrians are on the near side of the road, rather than on the opposite side. The system also utilises sensors which detect the presence of pedestrians waiting at the crossing, and as they are crossing the road. Function Unlike the older pelican and toucan crossing designs, where the pedestrian signal lights are mounted on the opposite side of the road, the puffin crossing has them mounted at the near road side, set diagonally to the road edge. This allows the pedestrian to monitor passing traffic while waiting for the signal to cross. ref name dft.gov.uk http www.dft.gov.uk pgr roads tss gpg puffingoodpracticeguide.pdf Foreword, Puffin Good Practice Guide, Department for Transport, 2006 ref A second reason for the design is that having the lights closer to the user assists visually impaired people who could have difficulty viewing the signal from across the carriageway. ref name dft.gov.uk Some push button units the lower box in the picture are also fitted with a tactile knob under the unit which rotates when the user may cross. This feature is also added Clarify reason retrofitted? or was it always there? date March 2012 to some pelican crossings. After a request to cross by button press a kerb side detector monitors the pedestrian s presence at the crossing. Should the pedestrian ... reading Puffin Good Practice Guide, UK Department of Transport, 2006 http www.dft.gov.uk pgr roads tss gpg puffingoodpracticeguide.pdf Puffin Good Practice Guide Video, UK Department of Transport, 2006 http www.dft.gov.uk pgr roads tss gpg puffingoodpracticeguidevideo.mpg The Installation of Puffin ... TAL1 02.pdf Puffin Pedestrian Crossing, UK Department of Transport, 2001 http www.dft.gov.uk 162259 ... more details
Taxobox name Horned Puffin status LC status system IUCN3.1 image Fratercula corniculataUSFWSSL0002774.jpg image width 200px regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis bird Aves ordo Charadriiformes familia auks Alcidae genus Puffin Fratercula species F. corniculata binomial Fratercula corniculata binomial authority Johann Friedrich Naumann Naumann, JF , 1821 The Horned Puffin Fratercula corniculata is an auk , similar in appearance to the Atlantic Puffin this bird s bill is yellow at the base and red at the tip. It is a pelagic seabird that feeds primarily by diving for fish. It nests in Bird colony colonies , often with other auks. The yellow bill plate grows before the breeding season and is shed later. They have a small fleshy black horn above their eyes. They have a white face with a dark line extending from the back of the eye and red feet. This species breeds on rocky islands off the coasts of Siberia , Alaska and British Columbia , in burrows, in rocky cavities or among rocks. It winters far out to sea. Feeding areas are usually located fairly far offshore from the nest. There is usually one chick and both parents feed the young. Horned Puffins will return from hunting with several small fish in their beaks. They also eat squid and crustacean s. The population of these birds has declined due to the introduction of rats onto some islands used for nesting. References File Horned Puffin, Hall Island.jpg thumb left Horned Puffin, Hall Island Alaska Hall Island IUCN2006 assessors BirdLife International year 2004 id 49302 title Fratercula corniculata downloaded 11 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America ISBN 0 7922 6877 6 Seabirds, an Identification Guide ... Puffin http www.puffinpalooza.com Puffinpalooza.com Commons Fratercula corniculata Category Alcidae Category Auks Puffin, Horned az Sakit Okean k tdimdiyi br Poc han kornek ca Fraret corniculat ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2007 Dr. Stephen W. Kress of the National Audubon Society started Project Puffin in 1973 in an effort to learn how to restore puffins to historic nesting islands in the Gulf of Maine . At that time, literally all the puffin eggs in Maine were located on two small islands Matinicus Rock and Machias Seal Island . Although puffins are not an endangered species they are abundant in Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland , Iceland , and United Kingdom Britain , they are quite rare in Maine. The two surviving groups were very vulnerable to a disaster such as an oil spill , or accidental introducing of predators such as rats or mink . File Kress and puffin large.jpg left thumb Stephen Kress and a puffin on Easter Egg Rock. The project began with an attempt to restore puffins to Eastern Egg Rock Island Eastern Egg Rock in Muscongus Bay , about six miles away from Pemaquid Point . Puffins had nested on the islets until hunters took out the last survivors of this once flourishing colony . The restoration of puffins to Eastern Egg Rock is based on the fact that young puffins usually return to breed on the same island where they hatched. Young puffins from Great Island Newfoundland and Labrador Great Island where about 160,000 pairs nest were transplanted to Eastern Egg Rock when they were about 10 14 days old. The young puffins were then nested in artificial sod burrow s for about one month. Audubon biologists placed handfuls of vitamin fortified fish in their burrows each day and, in effect, took the place of parent puffins. As the young puffins reached fledging age the time when birds leave the nest , they received bird ringing identification tags so they could ... time an attempt had been made to restore a puffin colony, the outcome is unknown. Between 1973 ... them ashore and encourage the birds to explore their home, wooden puffin decoys were positioned atop ... pairs in 2001. External links http www.projectpuffin.org Project Puffin Web page Category Natural ... more details
Image Dreierprofil.jpg thumb right 320px Atlantic Puffins on Mykines Puffin is a culinary speciality of the Faroe Islands , in the North Atlantic Ocean . Atlantic Puffin s breed in the islands in large numbers, notably on Mykines , and from July, after the breeding season, it is legal to catch them for food. Puffins are also widely harvested and eaten in Iceland , especially in the Vestmannaeyjar Westmen Isles . Puffin harvesting Image Fleygamenn Trongisv gur.jpg thumb left Faroese fleygers with their catch, late 19th century The Faroes are home to about five million seabirds , including two million breeding pairs, with a Biomass ecology biomass of 3,000 tonnes. Seabird harvesting in the Faroe Islands has been carried out sustainability sustainably for at least 300 years, historically forming a very important component of the Faroese diet. Bag limits are now set each year to maintain the harvest of tens of thousands of birds annually. Ownership of the seabird colony areas where puffins, and other harvested seabirds, breed and are caught, may be by individuals or communally by villages. Puffins and Northern Fulmar fulmars are the most important species harvested, but Common Guillemot guillemots and Northern Gannet gannets and, historically, other species are also taken. ref N rrevang, Arne. 1986 . Traditions of sea bird fowling in the Faroes An ecological basis for sustained fowling. Ornis Scandinavica 17 275 281. ref ref International Arctic Science Committee Content Partner Sidney Draggan Topic Editor . 2007. Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic. In Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland Washington, D.C. Environmental Information ... Islands. The Faroese language Faroese word for puffin is lundi . A popular and much loved Faroese cartoon character is the bespectacled puffin known as Ludvik Lundi. Puffin cuisine Image Stora .... ref http www.thegastronaut.com Puffin.htm The Gastronaut Puffin ref External links http www.framtak.com ... more details
Taxobox name Tufted Puffin status LC status system IUCN3.1 image Tufted Puffin Alaska cropped .jpg image width 250px regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis bird Aves ordo Charadriiformes familia auks Alcidae genus Puffin Fratercula species F. cirrhata binomial Fratercula cirrhata binomial authority Peter Simon Pallas Pallas , 1769 synonyms Lunda cirrhata The Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata also known as Crested Puffin , is a relatively abundant medium sized pelagic seabird in the auk Alcidae family found throughout the North Pacific Ocean . It is one of three species of puffin that make .... Taxonomy The Tufted Puffin was first described in 1769 by German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas . Its ... . Description File TuftedPuffinBurrow.jpg thumb left Tufted Puffin outside of burrow on Kuril Islands ... facial patch, and, typical of other puffin species, feature a very thick bill which is mostly .... File Puffin Winter Colors.jpg thumb Tufted Puffin in winter plumage As among other alcids ... Puffins F. corniculata , the range of the Tufted Puffin is generally more southern. They have ... seem to prefer the puffin over other birds, making the bird a main target. Choosing inaccessible ... of the last two nesting colonies of puffins in Puget Sound, and about 70 of the tufted puffin population ... thumb Tufted Puffin drawn in 1895 The Aleut people Aleut and Ainu people of the North Pacific traditionally hunted Tufted Puffin for food and feathers. Skins were used to make tough parka ... Puffin is illegal or discouraged throughout its range. ref name Stirling References reflist ... site accounts information Fratercula cirrhata.html University of Michigan Puffin Site http www.sdakotabirds.com species photos tufted puffin.htm Tufted Puffin Photographs South Dakota Birds and Birding ... protection island aquatic reserve DNR Celebration of Approval Category Alcidae Category Auks Puffin, Tufted Category Birds of Canada Puffin, Tufted br Poc han bouchek ca Fraret crestat de Gelbschopflund ... more details
NASA s Puffin Is a Stealthy, Personal Tilt Rotor Aircraft url http www.popsci.com technology article 2010 01 nasas puffin aircraft stealthy one man vtol aircraft publisher Popular Science first Clay ... to achieve the first flight of a one third scale, hover capable Puffin demonstrator by March 2010 ... third scale model of the Puffin was on display at the NASA Langley campus for the filming of the Discovery ... the Discovery show will premiere on 22 October 2010, but has no source for that claim. The Puffin simulator was also demonstrated. The Puffin is slated to appear in the eighth and final episode of the show ... The Puffin A Passion for Personal Flight , 2010 02 08. http www.scientificamerican.com article.cfm?id nasa one man stealth plane Electric Icarus NASA Designs a One Man Stealth Plane Could the Puffin ... Q. Choi, Scientific American , 2010 01 19 http blogs.discovermagazine.com 80beats 2010 01 20 meet the puffin nasas one man electric plane Meet the Puffin, NASA s One Man Electric Plane , Discover Magazine , 2010 01 20. http www.wired.com autopia 2010 01 nasa puffin NASA s Puffin Is Way Cooler Than ... aircraft aero 2000s stub sv Puffin ... more details
, the Puffin was a conventional single engined biplane of its day, but it had two unusual features ... position with the tail well clear of the surface. The Puffin was a two bay biplane, its parallel ... arrangement, had the standard Scarff ring mounted Lewis gun of the time. ref name Wix The Puffin was powered ... 1920. ref name Wix Flight tests revealed one problem that was never satisfactorily solved the Puffin ... ref name Tay Pintail arrangement. Despite its promise, the Puffin was produced at a time when ... photo http www.flightglobal.com pdfarchive view 1921 1921 20 200717.html The Parnall Puffin Deck ... British fighter aircraft 1920 1929 Category Parnall aircraft Puffin sr ... more details
Puffin Island, Newfoundland and Labrador may refer to Puffin Island Baccalieu Tickle , Newfoundland and Labrador , Canada Puffin Island Greenspond , Newfoundland and Labrador , Canada geodis ... more details
expand further date February 2012 Graphics hardware is computer hardware that enables computers to produce and show computer graphics . It works in conjuntion with graphics software . Examples of graphics hardware are display device s, graphics card s, graphics processing unit s and motion capture hardware. See also Graphics hardware and FOSS Category Graphics hardware Comp hardware stub ... more details
Intel graphics may refer to Intel740 , a graphics processing unit released in 1998 Intel Extreme Graphics , a series of integrated graphics released from 2002 to 2003 Intel Graphics Media Accelerator , a series of integrated graphics released from 2005 to 2008 Larrabee microarchitecture , the code name for an unreleased Intel graphics processing unit Intel HD Graphics , a series of processor based graphics first released in 2010 disambig ... more details
Puffin s Pla i ce is a British regional children s programme broadcast on Channel Television ITV1 Channel Television on weekend afternoons usually just before Channel Report Channel News . The programme, one of the longest running children s series to air on the ITV network, has been broadcast since 3 March 1963. Originally presented by Channel Television s team of continuity announcers, recent Puffin s Pla i ce presenters have included Stewart McDonald, Kevin Pamplin, Sam Palmano, Lucy Anderson and currently, Jenny Mullin. External links http www.channelonline.tv puffinPuffin s Pla i ce Catch up at channelonline.tv Category 1963 television series debuts Category British children s television programmes Category Channel Islands UK tv prog stub ... more details
Other uses Puffin Island disambiguation Puffin Island Image Puffinisland1.jpg thumb 200px right Puffin Island, with the Skellig Islands Skelligs in the background Puffin Island Oile n na gC n g in Irish language Irish is an uninhabited steep rocky island lying off the coast of the Iveragh Peninsula , County Kerry , Republic of Ireland Ireland . The island is about 1.5 km long and 0.7 km wide, and rises to 159 metres. It is separated from the mainland by Puffin Sound, which is only about 250 metres across. Puffin Island holds important populations of several seabird species, including Atlantic Puffin s, Manx Shearwater s and European Storm petrel s, and was acquired as a nature reserve by the Irish Wildbird Conservancy now BirdWatch Ireland in the early 1980s. ref cite web url http www.birdwatchireland.ie Default.aspx?tabid 215 title Puffin Island, Co. Kerry accessdate 2009 11 02 last BirdWatch Ireland ref The island also has some signs of ancient human habitation, and it has attracted the interest of Archaeology archaeologists . References div class references small references div coord 51 50 N 10 25 W region IE type isle display title Kerry geo stub Category Islands of County Kerry Category Protected areas of County Kerry Category Marilyns of Ireland Category Uninhabited islands of Ireland Category Nature reserves in the Republic of Ireland Category Important Bird Areas of the Republic of Ireland fr Puffin Island ga Oile n na gC n g nn Puffin Island ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2007 A graphics suite is a software suite for graphics work that are distributed together. The programs are usually able to interact with each other on a higher level than the operating system would normally allow. There is no hard, fast rule regarding the programs to be included in a graphics application suite, but most will include at least a bitmap graphics editor and a vector graphics editor . In addition to these, the suite may contain VRML editors, animation editors, and morphing tools. See also Adobe Systems Products Adobe graphics suite Corel Corel products past and present Corel graphics suite Microsoft Expression Studio DEFAULTSORT Graphics Suite Category Graphics software Graphics software stub nl Graphics suite ... more details
Graphics engine may refer to Game engine a physics model typically implemented in software for use in computer games Graphics engine hardware a specialized computer hardware device, typically integrated with a framebuffer or other video display circuitry, for performing graphics calculations independently of a computer s main processor First person shooter graphics engine disamb ... more details
Elan Graphics is a computer graphics architecture for Silicon Graphics computer workstation s. Elan Graphics was developed in 1991 and was available as a high end graphics option on workstations released during the mid 1990s as part of the Express Graphics architectures family. Elan Graphics gives the workstation real time 2D and 3D graphics rendering capability similar to that of even high end Personal computer PC s made over ten years after Elan s introduction, with the exception of texture mapping , which had to be performed in software. http www.obsolyte.com sgi indigo Elan Graphics systems consist of four Geometry Engine s capable of a combined 128 MFLOPS and one Raster Engine . Together, they are capable of rendering 180K Z buffered, lit, Gouraud shading Gourad shaded triangles per second. The framebuffer has 56 bits per pixel, causing 12 bits per pixel dithered RGB 4 4 4 to be used for a double buffered, depth buffered, RGB layout. When double buffering isn t required, it is possible ... bit RGB framebuffer configuration is possible. The Elan Graphics system also implemented hardware stencil ... buffer. http www.sgistuff.net hardware graphics documents ElanTR.html Elan Graphics consists of five graphics subsystems the Command Engine, Geometry Subsystem, Raster Engine, framebuffer and Display Subsystem. Elan Graphics can produce resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 pixels with 24 bit color and can also process unencoded NTSC and PAL analog television signals. The Elan Graphics system is made up of five daughterboard s that plug into the main workstation motherboard . The Elan Graphics architecture was superseded by SGI s Extreme Graphics architecture on SGI Indigo2 Indigo2 models and eventually by the IMPACT computer graphics IMPACT graphics architecture in 1995. http retrotechnology.com herbs stuff indy.html External links http www.irisindigo.com elan ElanTR.html ElanTR Elan Graphics Technical Report Category SGI graphics cs Elan ... more details
Distinguish2 List of Intel chipsets Intel Extreme Graphics, a series of built in graphics adapter Extreme Graphics is a computer graphics architecture for Silicon Graphics computer workstation s. Extreme Graphics was developed in 1993 and was available as a high end graphics option on workstations such as the SGI Indigo2 Indigo2 , released during the mid 1990s. Extreme Graphics gives the workstation real time 2D and 3D graphics rendering capability similar to that of even high end Personal computer PC s made many years after Extreme s introduction, with the exception of texture rendering which is performed in Software rendering software . Extreme Graphics systems consist of eight Geometry Engine s and two Raster Engine s, twice as many units as the Elan XZ graphics used in the SGI Indy Indy , SGI Indigo Indigo , and SGI Indigo2 Indigo2 . The eight geometry engines are rated at 256 MFLOPS maximum, far faster than the MIPS R4400 CPU used in the workstation. Extreme Graphics consists of five graphics subsystems the Command Engine, Geometry Subsystem, Raster Engine, framebuffer and Display Subsystem. http www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl i2sec5.html 5.6 Extreme Graphics can produce resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 pixels with 24 bit color and can also process unencoded NTSC and PAL analog television signals. It is reported by the PROM as GU1 Extreme. The Extreme Graphics architecture was superseded by SGI s IMPACT computer graphics IMPACT graphics architecture in 1995. External links http www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl i2sec5.html 5.6 Indigo2 and POWER Indigo2 Technical Report http www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl i2info.html 3.2.2 2nd hand Indigo2 Buyers Guide Category SGI graphics ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 A graphics library is a Computer program program Library computing library designed to aid in rendering computer graphics to a monitor. This typically involves providing optimized versions of functions that handle common Rendering computer graphics rendering tasks. This can be done purely in Computer software software and running on the Central processing unit CPU , common in embedded system s, or being Computer hardware hardware accelerated by a Graphics processing unit GPU , more common in Personal computer PCs . By employing these functions, a program can assemble an image to be output to a monitor. This relieves the programmer of the task of creating and optimizing these functions, and allows them to focus on building the graphics program. Examples Cairo graphics Direct3D MiniGL OpenGL WebGL OpenGL ES Open Inventor Openskia Segger Microcontroller Systems emWin An Embedded Graphics Library SFML Simple DirectMedia Layer See also Anti Grain Geometry Software development kit SDK DEFAULTSORT Graphics Library Category Graphics libraries de Grafikbibliothek fr Biblioth que graphique it GL grafica 3d ... more details
The Xar File format is the fully specified vector graphics file format of Xara and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer . External links http www.xara.com Xara homepage http www.xara.com support docs webformat spec Complete documentation of the XAR file format Graphics file formats Category Vector graphics markup languages compu lang stub ... more details
. History Expand section date June 2010 SuperPaint 1973 was one of the earliest graphics software ... ref Currently Adobe Photoshop is one of the most used and best known graphics programs, having displaced ... Corel Paint Shop Pro See also multicol Comparison of raster graphics editors Comparison of vector graphics editors Graphics hardware List of raster graphics editors List of vector graphics editors multicol break Graphic art software Image conversion Photoshop Raster graphics editor Vector graphics editor multicol end References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Graphics Software Category Graphics software ar ... more details
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