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Transparency, transparence or transparent most often refer to:

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(Note: Many of the articles listed below use "transparency" metaphorically, meaning that everything is visible, nothing is hidden.)

Transparency may also refer to:

Literal uses

Animals and plants

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Groups and labels

Albums

Songs

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Computing and mathematics

Humanities and business

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Vector most often refers to:

Reflection or reflexion may refer to:

Any change in a computing system, such as a new feature or new component, is transparent if the system after change adheres to previous external interface as much as possible while changing its internal behaviour. The purpose is to shield from change all systems on the other end of the interface. Confusingly, the term refers to overall invisibility of the component, it does not refer to visibility of component's internals. The term transparent is widely used in computing marketing in substitution of the term invisible, since the term invisible has a bad connotation while the term transparent has a good connotation. The vast majority of the times, the term transparent is used in a misleading way to refer to the actual invisibility of a computing process, which is also described by the term opaque, especially with regards to data structures. Because of this misleading and counter-intuitive definition, modern computer literature tends to prefer use of "agnostic" over "transparent".

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Transparency (graphic)</span> Capability of a computer graphic to allow whatever is "behind" it to be visible

Transparency in computer graphics is possible in a number of file formats. The term "transparency" is used in various ways by different people, but at its simplest there is "full transparency" i.e. something that is completely invisible. Only part of a graphic should be fully transparent, or there would be nothing to see. More complex is "partial transparency" or "translucency" where the effect is achieved that a graphic is partially transparent in the same way as colored glass. Since ultimately a printed page or computer or television screen can only be one color at a point, partial transparency is always simulated at some level by mixing colors. There are many different ways to mix colors, so in some cases transparency is ambiguous.

Open or OPEN may refer to:

Strip or Stripping may refer to:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Corel Photo-Paint</span> Raster graphics editing software

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Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits.

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Real-time, realtime, or real time may refer to:

POV most commonly refers to:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">3D computer graphics</span> Graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data

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Vision, Visions, or The Vision may refer to:

3D, 3-D or 3d usually means three-dimensional or three dimensions and may refer to: