Parallax (disambiguation)

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A parallax is the difference in the angular position of two stationary points relative to each other from different viewing positions. Parallax may also refer to:

Astronomy

• Parsec (pc), parallax of one arcsecond with a baseline of 1 AU, and equal to 3.26 light years.
• Dynamical parallax, a method of measuring the distance to a visual binary star
• Photometric parallax method
• Spectroscopic parallax
• Stellar parallax, uses actual geometric parallax to determine distance

Business

• Parallax, Inc. (company), designer and manufacturer of microcontrollers
• Parallax Software, creator of the Descent series
• Parallax Studio, midwest based film and animation studio

People

• Parallax (comics), A DC Comics supervillain
• Samuel Rowbotham (1816–1864), who used the pseudonym "Parallax" when promoting flat-earth theories

Computer technology

• Parallax mapping, a 3D graphics rendering technique
• Parallax Propeller, a 32-bit microcontroller with eight CPU cores
• Parallax scrolling, a scrolling technique in computer graphics

Popular media

Print

• PARALLAX, a novel by Jon F. Merz
• parallax (journal), an American academic journal on the topics for the disciplines of cultural studies, critical theory, and philosophy

Visual arts

• Parallax barrier
• Parallax mapping

Comics

• Parallax (comics), a DC comic book supervillain

Film

• The Parallax View, a 1974 American film starring Warren Beatty.

Television

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

Recorded music

• Parallax (Greg Howe album), 1995 album by Greg Howe
• Parallax (Atlas Sound album), 2011 album by Atlas Sound
• Parallax, Norwegian band
• The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues, 2011 EP by Between the Buried and Me
• The Parallax II: Future Sequence, 2012 album by Between the Buried and Me