In 1838, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel won the race to measure the first distance to a star other than our Sun via the trigonometric parallax—setting the first scale of the universe. Astronomers from the U ...

Parallax is the observed displacement of an object caused by the change of the observer's point of view. In astronomy, it is an irreplaceable tool for calculating distances of far away stars. When you ...

MR. PROCTOR entirely misunderstands me if he thinks that my criticism on his account of the solar parallax had reference to any failure on his part to give prominence to the discussion between Mr.

Remember about five years ago, when the new hotness in interaction design was to have flashy layers in your website scroll at different speeds, creating a faux-3D effect? The effect was called ...

A type of glasses-free 3D (autostereoscopic) technology that separates the image into columns of left and right pixels and uses an opaque barrier layer with vertical slits to direct the eyes ...