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  2. Blue field entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    The blue field entoptic phenomenon is an entoptic phenomenon characterized by the appearance of tiny bright dots (nicknamed blue-sky sprites) moving quickly along undulating pathways in the visual field, especially when looking into bright blue light such as the sky. [ 1] The dots are short-lived, visible for about one second or less, and ...

  3. Olympics-Breaking-Pilloried breakdancer Raygun says online ...

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    Gunn asked for privacy, saying: "I'd really like to ask the press to please stop harassing my family, my friends, the Australian breaking community and the broader street dance community.

  4. Closed-eye hallucination - Wikipedia

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    Closed-eye hallucinations and closed-eye visualizations (CEV) are hallucinations that occur when one's eyes are closed or when one is in a darkened room. They should not be confused with phosphenes , perceived light and shapes when pressure is applied to the eye's retina, or some other non-visual external cause stimulates the eye.

  5. Ray tracing (graphics) - Wikipedia

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    The idea behind ray casting, the predecessor to recursive ray tracing, is to trace rays from the eye, one per pixel, and find the closest object blocking the path of that ray. Think of an image as a screen-door, with each square in the screen being a pixel. This is then the object the eye sees through that pixel.

  6. Does staring at screens ruin your eyes? - AOL

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    We've all grown up thinking that sitting too close to the television is damaging to our eyes ... but that might not be the case. Technology spawns lots of confusion ... and a few affectionately ...

  7. TikTok's Viral 'Cognitive Shuffling' Hack May Help You Sleep ...

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    Enter: cognitive shuffling, a method that's going viral as a "hack" for dozing off quicker. It's perfect for when you have a million racing thoughts—like how you're going to get the kids to ...

  8. Barrier-grid animation and stereography - Wikipedia

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    Barrier-grid animation or picket-fence animation is an animation effect created by moving a striped transparent overlay across an interlaced image. The barrier-grid technique originated in the late 1890s, overlapping with the development of parallax stereography ( Relièphographie) for 3D autostereograms. The technique has also been used for ...

  9. Entoptic phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    Entoptic phenomena (from Ancient Greek ἐντός (entós) 'within' and ὀπτικός (optikós) 'visual') are visual effects whose source is within the human eye itself. (Occasionally, these are called entopic phenomena, which is probably a typographical mistake.) In Helmholtz 's words: "Under suitable conditions light falling on the eye ...