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  2. Multisample anti-aliasing - Wikipedia

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    Definition. The term generally refers to a special case of supersampling. Initial implementations of full-scene anti-aliasing ( FSAA) worked conceptually by simply rendering a scene at a higher resolution, and then downsampling to a lower-resolution output. Most modern GPUs are capable of this form of anti-aliasing, but it greatly taxes ...

  3. 1885 Chinese expulsion from Eureka - Wikipedia

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    Background. Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States had been rising since mid-19th century. Numerous anti-Chinese riots broke out in the west, including California.The San Francisco riot of 1877 led to the formation of the Workingmen's Party of California that same year; its slogan "The Chinese must go!" served to further incite resentment toward Chinese immigrants.

  4. Supersampling - Wikipedia

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    Supersampling or supersampling anti-aliasing ( SSAA) is a spatial anti-aliasing method, i.e. a method used to remove aliasing (jagged and pixelated edges, colloquially known as "jaggies") from images rendered in computer games or other computer programs that generate imagery. Aliasing occurs because unlike real-world objects, which have ...

  5. Delta Omega - Wikipedia

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    Delta Omega was founded in 1924 by two graduate students at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public ... (Jiann-Ping Hsu) Gamma Theta: Active October 1 ...

  6. Anti-Chinese violence in California - Wikipedia

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    Growth of California. California was annexed by the United States from Mexico after the Mexican–American War in 1848. At the same time the California Gold Rush brought hundreds of thousands of settlers from the Eastern U.S. in search of gold, allowing California to become a state in 1850.

  7. Delta timing - Wikipedia

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    Delta time or delta timing is a concept used amongst programmers in relation to hardware and network responsiveness. In graphics programming, the term is usually used for variably updating scenery based on the elapsed time since the game last updated, (i.e. the previous "frame") which will vary depending on the speed of the computer, and how much work needs to be done in the program at any ...

  8. ping (networking utility) - Wikipedia

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    ping is a computer network administration software utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. It is available for virtually all operating systems that have networking capability, including most embedded network administration software. Ping measures the round-trip time for messages sent from the ...

  9. Delta Force - Wikipedia

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    Delta Force bodyguards in civilian clothing providing close protection to General Norman Schwarzkopf during the Gulf War, 1991. Delta Force was created in 1977 after numerous well-publicized terrorist incidents led the U.S. government to develop a full-time counter-terrorism unit. Key military and government figures had already been briefed on ...