Word: blurring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haunted all the buildings where he had lived, and went into the Yard and touched the worn hollows in the steps of Sever where almost three generations of Harvard men had stepped. A hair of a new moon cradled in the branch of a dark pine over the white blur of University Hall. A cold wind suddenly rose. He cried to himself and plodded upstairs to the dusky loft...
...problems of another method, which requires no special glasses or effort for the observer. He calls it "parallax panoramagram." An object is photographed from many points of view through a grating. The grating deflects and breaks up the image on the negative. The positive print is a blur unless viewed through a grating the duplicate of the camera's. Still pictures made and scanned this way are brilliantly realistic...
...week were preparing a technical report on how they wired a radio loudspeaker to a cat's middle ear, where many hearing defects begin. They thus could hear what the cat heard. They learned that some middle ear defects do not alter the sense of hearing, that others blur reception, others increase acuity...
...student who presents himself at an examination is not entitled to a make-up examination for any reason whatsoever The proctors are instructed not to allow any student to leave the room without giving his name and submitting a blur took or blue books...
...silver emulsion film cannot be too small or too large without suffering distortion. The images recorded on light-sensitive film when the camera's shutter is snapped are formed by small deposits of metallic silver grains. For photographs taken through the microscope, these grains are often too gross, blur the minute detail. Greatly enlarged pictures are pockmarked. Cinema "stills," when projected, look spotted because of their size. Since the films in the ordinary moving picture are shown in rapid succession the grain patterns, which are different in every picture, blend, escape the eyes of the spectators...