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    In physics, the wavefront of a time-varying wave field is the set (locus) of all points having the same phase. The term is generally meaningful only for...
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  • Wavefront Technologies was a computer graphics company that developed and sold animation software used in Hollywood motion pictures and other industries...
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    Alias Systems Corporation (formerly Alias Research, Alias|Wavefront), headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was a software company that produced...
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  • OBJ (or .OBJ) is a geometry definition file format first developed by Wavefront Technologies for The Advanced Visualizer animation package. It is an open...
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    are given, a wavefront expanding from A sweeps all possible ray paths radiating from A, whether they pass through B or not. If the wavefront reaches point...
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  • Look up wavefront in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In physics, a wavefront is the locus (a line, or, in a wave propagating in 3 dimensions, a surface)...
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  • In optics and signal processing, wavefront coding refers to the use of a phase modulating element in conjunction with deconvolution to extend the depth...
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  • A pyramid wavefront sensor is a type of a wavefront sensor. It measures the optical aberrations of an optical wavefront. This wavefront sensor uses a...
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    that outweighs any benefit from wavefront correction. When treating a patient with preexisting astigmatism, most wavefront-guided LASIK lasers are designed...
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  • A wavefront curvature sensor is a device for measuring the aberrations of an optical wavefront. Like a Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor it uses an array...
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  • French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel) states that every point on a wavefront is itself the source of spherical wavelets, and the secondary wavelets...
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    aberrations. Adaptive optics works by measuring the distortions in a wavefront and compensating for them with a device that corrects those errors such...
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    Holography is a technique that enables a wavefront to be recorded and later reconstructed. It is best known as a method of generating three-dimensional...
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    (or Hartmann–Shack) wavefront sensor (SHWFS) is an optical instrument used for characterizing an imaging system. It is a wavefront sensor commonly used...
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  • The precedence effect or law of the first wavefront is a binaural psychoacoustical effect concerning sound reflection and the perception of echoes. When...
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  • A Wavefront arbiter is a circuit used to make decisions which control the crossbar of a high capacity switch fabric in parallel. It was commercialized...
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  • Silicon Graphics Inc. had acquired both Alias and Wavefront Technologies, Inc. in 1995, Wavefront's technology (then under development) was merged into...
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  • Wavefront Technology Solutions Inc. is a provider of secondary oil recovery and environmental technologies. The company was founded in 1997 as PE-TECH...
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  • for random access to specific regions of a picture in a video stream. Wavefront parallel processing (WPP) is when a slice is divided into rows of CTUs...
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  • Wave front set (redirect from Wavefront set)
    we regard ƒ to be smooth in the direction of v. Otherwise, v is in the wavefront set. Formally, in Euclidean space, the wave front set of ƒ is defined...
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    produces artificial wavefronts synthesized by a large number of individually driven loudspeakers from elementary waves. Such wavefronts seem to originate...
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    point on the wavefront of birefringent material produces two types of wavefronts or wavelets: spherical wavefronts and ellipsoidal wavefronts. These secondary...
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    Sagnac, and the scatterplate interferometer. A wavefront splitting interferometer divides a light wavefront emerging from a point or a narrow slit (i.e....
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  • Optical holography is a technique which enables an optical wavefront to be recorded and later re-constructed. Holography is best known as a method of...
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  • different wavefronts, and when one wavefront is waiting on some result, which lies in memory, the CU Scheduler assigns the SIMD-VU another wavefront. Wavefronts...
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    like a piling in a river. Focus first on a given k, emitting (phase) wavefronts whose stationary position w.r.t. the boat assemble to the standard shock...
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    {{\text{FWHM}}(z)}{\sqrt {2\ln 2}}}.} The wavefronts have zero curvature (radius = ∞) at the waist. Wavefront curvature increases away from the waist,...
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    at a speed greater than the phase velocity (speed of propagation of a wavefront in a medium) of light in that medium. A classic example of Cherenkov radiation...
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  • The clock and wavefront model is a model used to describe the process of somitogenesis in vertebrates. Somitogenesis is the process by which somites,...
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  • the whole process chain of synthetically preparing holographic light wavefronts suitable for observation. If holographic data of existing objects is generated...
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