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 Icons can be arranged to 'sit' on a specific part of the wallpaper | | | The terms wallpaper and desktop picture refer to an image used as a background on a computer screen, usually for the desktop of a graphical user interface. 'Wallpaper' is the term used in Microsoft Windows, while the Mac OS avoids mixing metaphors by calling it a 'desktop picture' (prior to Mac OS X, the term desktop pattern was used to refer to a small pattern that was repeated to fill the screen). Download high resolution version (750x762, 82 KB)Viewsonic CRT computer monitor. ...
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Download high resolution version (1200x1200, 444 KB)completed tile after reflective replication. ...
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Symmetry is a characteristic of geometrical shapes, equations and other objects; we say that such an object is symmetric with respect to a given operation if this operation, when applied to the object, does not appear to change it. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Mac OS X is the latest version of the Macintosh operating system, and is designed and developed by Apple Computer to run on their Macintosh line of personal computers. ...
Download high resolution version (1024x768, 435 KB)Wallpaper on Windows XP. File links The following pages link to this file: Computer wallpaper ...
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Image File history File links Link to the original This work is copyrighted, and used with permission. ...
Digital Blasphemy wallpaper Digital Blasphemy is a popular website for computer wallpapers, both those created by Ryan Bliss, and those sent-in by contributors. ...
A desktop is the horizontal surface of a desk. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A graphical user interface (or GUI, sometimes pronounced gooey) is a method of interacting with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text. ...
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Formats
Images used as computer wallpaper are usually raster graphics with the same size as the display resolution (for example 1024 x 768 pixels, or 1280 x 1024 pixels) in order to fill the whole background. Many screen resolutions are proportional, so an image scaled to fit in a different-sized screen will often be the correct shape, albeit that scaling may impact quality. PNG and JPEG format are common. Suppose the smiley face in the top left corner is an RGB bitmap image. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The display resolution of a digital television or computer display is the number of pixels (or maximal image resolution) that can be displayed on the screen, usually given as a product of the number of columns (horizontal, X), which is always stated first and the number...
The word proportionality may have one of a number of meanings: In mathematics, proportionality is a mathematical relation between two quantities. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A PNG image with an 8-bit transparency layer (top), overlayed onto a chequered background (bottom). ...
A photo of a flower compressed with successively higher compression ratios from left to right. ...
Users with widescreen (16:9 or 16:10) monitors have different aspect ratio requirements for wallpaper, although images designed for standard (4:3) monitors can often be scaled or cropped to the correct shape without loss of quality. Jump to: navigation, search A 32inch CRT widescreen television A widescreen image is a film image with a greater aspect ratio than the ordinary 35 millimeter frame. ...
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Scaled Composites (often abbreviated as Scaled) was founded in 1982 in Mojave, California by famous aircraft designer Burt Rutan out of what used to be the Rutan Aircraft Factory. ...
Crop has several meanings: A crop is a plant domesticated for use in agriculture, considered as a group (eg. ...
Wallpapers are sometimes available in double-width versions (e.g. 2560 x 1024) for displaying on multi-monitor computers, where the image appears to fill two monitors. Digital Blasphemy is one of the main sources for multi-monitor wallpapers. Digital Blasphemy wallpaper Digital Blasphemy is a popular website for computer wallpapers, both those created by Ryan Bliss, and those sent-in by contributors. ...
Smaller images can be tiled (repeated) to fill large areas, and depending on how skilfully the wallpaper was created, the effect can look reasonably good. However, if the join is too obvious, or the image repeats too many times, it will look very repetitive.
With the increase in color screen mobile phones, wallpapers are starting to appear scaled to their lower resolution. These are often sold at a high profit to telephone users, although some phones have software which allows images to be uploaded from a computer. Mobile telephones with cameras can often use images from the camera, or from a received image, as the wallpaper.
Most display systems are capable of specifying a single-colour to use as the background in place of a wallpaper, and some (such as KDE) allow colour-gradients to be specified. MS Windows systems allow using editable repeating two-color 8x8 tiles for background. Jump to: navigation, search KDE (K Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment and development platform built with Trolltechs Qt toolkit. ...
From version 3.4, KDE supports vector wallpaper in SVG format. This has the advantage that a single file may be used for screens of any size, or stretched across several screens, without loss of quality. Steam Locomotive 7646 as a vector, originally Windows Metafile (converted to GIF for display on Wikipedia page). ...
Jump to: navigation, search Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated. ...
Styles Wallpaper styles are as varied as people themselves, using photographs, drawings, 3D renders or abstract pattern with complex gradients. It can be useful to have plain areas so that icons can be clearly seen atop the wallpaper. Jump to: navigation, search Drawing is one of many ways to making an image; it is the process of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface. ...
In the above two images, the scalar field is in black and white, black representing higher values, and its corresponding gradient is represented by blue arrows. ...
Several desktop icons from the Windows operating system A computer icon is a small graphic, usually ranging from 16 pixels by 16 pixels up to 128 pixels by 128 pixels, which represents a file, folder, application or device on a computer operating system. ...
Typical categories can include cars, models and celebrities, holiday photos, abstract art, movies, pets, symmetrical and scenery. Jump to: navigation, search Cars is: The plural of the car Cars, a single by Gary Numan Cars, the sixth Pixar movie, scheduled for release in 2006, and the final Disney/Pixar movie. ...
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Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses shapes and colours in a non-representational or subjective way. ...
For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of...
PET, see PET. A pet or companion animal is an animal that is kept by humans for companionship and enjoyment, rather than for economic reasons. ...
Symmetry is a characteristic of geometrical shapes, equations and other objects; we say that such an object is symmetric with respect to a given operation if this operation, when applied to the object, does not appear to change it. ...
Theatrical scenery is things that are used as setting for a theatrical production. ...
In business use, corporate logos or plain backgrounds are often specified by the IT department. The Greek word λόγος or logos is a word with various meanings. ...
When using rack mounted computers through a keyboard switch, it can often be useful to create a wallpaper with the computer's name on it, to easily identify which computer you're connected to.
Timed wallpapers Some operating environments (e.g. KDE) allow a number of different wallpapers to be used, and "rotated" to display a different wallpaper at different times, to display a random image from a directory. If the facility is not available in the OS' wallpaper settings, it may be possible to get an external program which can change the wallpaper at certain times. Jump to: navigation, search KDE (K Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment and development platform built with Trolltechs Qt toolkit. ...
In ordinary language, the word random is used to express apparent lack of purpose or cause. ...
Active wallpapers Programs such as xplanet use internet connections and graphics calculations to change the wallpaper with real data, such as a shadowed view of the earth, the latest cloud or weather map, or various events. Some media players can redirect video playback to desktop, allowing using any video as a wallpaper. Other tools (for example WireChanger) can add to wallpaper interactive widgets like calendar, notes, RSS feed or generate wallpaper image using various algorithms. Widget is a general-purpose term for any unspecified device, including those that have not yet been invented. ...
RSS, pronounced arr-ess-ess, is a web syndication protocol primarily used by news websites and weblogs. ...
Setting the wallpaper on a computer - Fluxbox: Use the fbsetbg command to specify a wallpaper.
- GNOME: gnome-control-center shows the control panel, with options for wallpaper, or right-click on the background to select the wallpaper directly.
- IceWM: Needs to be done in the theme config file. [1]
- KDE: kcontrol shows the control panel, with options for wallpaper, or right-click on the background to select the wallpaper directly.
- Mac OS X: Use the Desktop or Desktop & Screensaver panel in System Preferences, or control-click the desktop and choose 'Change Desktop Background'.
- Mac OS: Use the Desktop tab of the Appearance control panel in versions 8.5-9.2, the Desktop Pictures control panel in versions 8.0-8.1, the Desktop Patterns control panel in versions 7.5-7.6, or the General Controls control panel in earlier versions.
- Windows XP/2000/9x: Start, Run, Control panel, Display, or right-click on the background and select "Properties".
- WindowMaker: Use the wmsetbg command to specify a wallpaper.
Web browsers and image viewers often have the ability to set an image as the desktop background if you right-click it or choose a menu option. Screenshot of Fluxbox with a customized theme. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The GNU Network Object Model Environment, or GNOME, project is an international effort to create an easy-to-use computer desktop environment built entirely from software considered free by the Free Software Foundation. ...
In Unix computing, IceWM is a window manager for the X Window System graphical infrastructure. ...
In computing, a theme is a preset package containing graphical appearance details, used to customise the look and feel of (typically) an operating system, widget set or window manager. ...
Jump to: navigation, search KDE (K Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment and development platform built with Trolltechs Qt toolkit. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Mac OS X is the latest version of the Macintosh operating system, and is designed and developed by Apple Computer to run on their Macintosh line of personal computers. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Original 1984 Mac OS desktop Current 2005 Mac OS X desktop Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is Apple Computer’s name for the first operating systems for Macintosh computers. ...
Jump to: navigation, search As of 2005, Windows XP is the current client version of the Microsoft Windows operating system. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search Web browser shortcuts on an Apple computer A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with HTML documents hosted by web servers or held in a file system. ...
An image viewer is a computer program that displays a stored graphical image; it can often handle various graphics file formats. ...
External links Digital Blasphemy wallpaper Digital Blasphemy is a popular website for computer wallpapers, both those created by Ryan Bliss, and those sent-in by contributors. ...
Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses shapes and colours in a non-representational or subjective way. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The pseudopod in The Abyss marked CGIs acceptance in the visual effects industry. ...
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