Parallax (disambiguation)

Parallax (disambiguation)

Parallax is the difference in the angular position of two stationary points relative to each other from different viewing positions.

* The different viewing positions can arise from an observer's motion, called motion parallax.
* The different viewing positions can arise from the different positions of the two eyes on a person's head, called binocular parallax.
* The different viewing positions can arise from the different positions of two optical devices, called parallax error. For example, in cameras for which the viewfinder is in a different position from the lens, the photograph will differ from what is seen through the viewfinder from parallax error.

Parallax may also refer to:

In business:

* Parallax, Inc. (company), designer and manufacturer of microcontrollers
* Parallax Press, publishing house
* Parallax Software, creator of the "Descent" series

In literature:

* "The Neanderthal Parallax", trilogy of novels by Robert J. Sawyer

In comics:
* "The Parallax Man", six issue American independent colour comic book which was originally solicited for publication by El Capitan Books
* Parallax (comics), DC comic book character

In technology:

* Parallax Mapping, 3D graphics rendering technique
* Parallax Propeller, 32bit microcontroller with 8 CPU cores
* Parallax scrolling, special scrolling technique in computer graphics

In television:

* "Parallax" (TV series), Australian children's science-fiction series
* , episode of "Star Trek: Voyager"

People:
* Samuel Rowbotham, who used the pseudonym "Parallax" when promoting flat-earth theories

In other fields:

* Dynamical Parallax, method of measuring the distance to a visual binary star
* "The Parallax View", 1974 movie
* Parallax_(album) is an instrumental electric guitar album by musician, Greg Howe.


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