Friday, November 30, 2007

LCD

A liquid crystal display (LCD) is a thin, flat display appliance made up of any number of color or monochrome pixels arrayed in front of a light source or reflector. It is prized by engineers because it uses very little amounts of electric power, and is therefore suitable for use in battery-powered electronic devices. In color LCDs each individual pixel is separated into three cells, or subpixels, which are coloured red, green, and blue, respectively, by additional filters. Each subpixel can be controlled independently to defer thousands or millions of possible colors for each pixel. Older CRT monitors employ a similar sub pixel structures via the use of phosphors, although the analog electron beam employed in CRTs do not hit correct subpixels.

Color components may be arrayed in a range of pixel geometries, depending on the monitor's usage. If software knows which type of geometry is being used in a given LCD, this can be used to increase the evident resolution of the monitor through subpixel rendering.

Monday, November 26, 2007

River

A river is a natural waterway that transits water through a setting from higher to lower elevations. A river may have its basis in a spring, lake, from damp, boggy landscapes where the soil is waterlogged, from glacial melt, or from surface runoff of precipitation. Almost each and every one river is joined by other rivers and streams termed tributaries the highest of which are known as headwaters. Water may also begin from groundwater sources. Throughout the course of the river, the total volume transported downstream will often be a combination of the free water flow together with a important contribution flowing through sub-surface rocks and gravels that underlie the river and its floodplain. For many rivers in large valleys, this unseen component of flow may greatly go above the visible flow.

From their source, all rivers flow downhill, typically terminating in the sea or in a lake, through a confluence. In arid areas rivers sometimes end by losing water to desertion. River water may also infiltrate into the soil or pervious rock, where it becomes groundwater. Excessive abstraction of water for use in commerce, irrigation, etc., can also cause a river to dry before success its natural terminus.