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Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (born February 5, 1819 in Lively Hall, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Dead 28 April 1905 in Yonkers, New York) was a British artist who is known mostly for his paintings of wildlife. During most of his career, he was associated with the New York…
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The Jungfrau at 4,158 meters, is one of the main summits of the Bernese Alps, located between the northern canton of Bern and the southern canton of Valais, halfway between Interlaken and Fiesch. The Jungfrau region is filled with huge mountains, alpine meadows, lovely walking trails, small scenic villages, and…
YCbCr, Y′CbCr, or Y Pb/Cb Pr/Cr, also written as YCBCR or Y’CBCR, is a family of color spaces used as a part of the color image pipeline in video and digital photography systems. Y′ is the luma component and CB and CR are the blue-difference and red-difference chroma components. Y′ (with prime) is…
Mir iskusstva (Russian: «Мир искусства», means World of Art) was a Russian magazine and the artistic movement, with the idea of promoting a pictorial renewal of Russian art by synthesizing several artistic forms including theater, decoration and the art of the book. It inspired and embodied, which was a major…
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