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What is aliasing?
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The pixelated staircase on the edge of an image when it is zoomed in.
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What is Anti-Aliasing?
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Made to smooth out the edge of BMP images.
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Describe LAN?
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Computers are networked together in a close area like a building.
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What does LAN stand for?
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Local Area Network
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Describe WAN?
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(Wide Area Network) Networks spread over large distance.
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WHen was the World Wide Web introduced?
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1991
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What did Samuel Morse do?
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He invented the morse code on the telegraph.
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The Samarians developed Cuniform, what was it?
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Early Written Word
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Johannes Gutenburg invented what?
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The printing press in the 15th century
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The telephone was invented by who?
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Alexander Graham Bell
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What was the arpanet?
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The first idea for internet which included 4 universities
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Email who introduced in?
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1971
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The killer application of the 90's
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Mosaic Browser later became Netscape
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What is multimedia?
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text, sound, and graphics combined in 1 medium
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What does interactivity mean?
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User control tempo and outcome for a multimedia experience.
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What are the 3 steps of design?
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defining the project, flowcharts and storyboards, creating a user interface
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WAV files and AIFF files are what type of files?
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uncompressed
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Where is streaming audio and video used at?
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The web
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MPEG 2 is used for?
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High quality in video DVD's
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What are MP3's
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Compressed Audio
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What are MPEG 4 used for?
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Interactive multimedia
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This is the software that allows us to synchronize elements without knowing code!
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Authoring Software
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What is "One Off"?
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The first test copy of a cd or dvd
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JPEG's are compressed what?
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Bitmaps
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What is a Codec?
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A term for software that codes and decodes signals.
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This was characters carved in wood and inked.
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Plate
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Each letter was individually created, molded in clay and then cast in metal.
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Movable type
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The method of a raised surface is inked and pressed against paper.
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Letterpress
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What is the proper name for stone writing?
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Lithography
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The two types of automated typsetting process.
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Linotype & Monotype
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There where 23,000 miles of telegraph by this year?
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1854
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New Utopia by Sir Bacon predicted what?
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The telephone
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What did Bell do at the Cnetennial Exhibition in Philadelphia?
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Revealed the telephone.
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This is a channel or pipelines through which data travels.
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the Line Medium
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The measurment for how much data can pass through a line medium at a certain time is the?
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Throughput
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This is the highest and lowest frequency that can be passed through a circuit
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bandwidth
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These are multiple wires twisted together into one cable used for sending and receiving a path of electrical signals
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The twisted pair
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This "line medium" could support either tv or telephone
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copper coaxial cable
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The "line medium" that was uplinked and amplified in orbit was the
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satellite
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Once used in WW2, these can now handle voice, data, and analog or digital video
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microwave
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This uses light rays to transmit data
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Fiber Optics
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This type of network is exists between internal branches of a company
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private network
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Networks that people can subscribe to include:
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AOL
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With this network, you can work at home and still access your office work ( kinda like propeller)
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VPN
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What does VPN stand for?
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Virtual Private Network
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What year did ARPANET go international?
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1973
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What is the data transmission standards for networks?
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TCP/IP
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This is the type of address assigned to a computer in 32 bit seperated by periods
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IP Address
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What was the first menu-driven interface for searching and retrieving documents? made in 1991
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GOPHER System
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A click on this text will propel the use to successive locations
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Hypertext
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What are the 4 types of topologies used on LAN's
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Bus (backbone), Tree(bus and star), Ring(connected) and Star(connected to central hub).
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Created by Xerox, this is a useful communication standard in
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Ethernet
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There are 3 types of Ethernet LAN's
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10Mps,100Mps, and 1GPS
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The standard ethernet cabling is known as the
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CAT5-RJ45 Jack
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WLAN uses what to send data from a computer to a router.
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Radio Waves
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What does WLAN stand for
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Wireless Local Area Network
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What does ISDN stand for?
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Integrated Service digital network
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What is the ISDN used for?
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Multiple channels of data over WAN
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A 24 channels, each has 64kbs
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T1
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Has 672 channels, equivalent to 28 T1 lines
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T3
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The most expensive Wan protocal past the T3 is the
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OC Optical Carrier
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Dsl comes in 2 basic types:
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SDSL and ADSL
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Which dsl protocol is the lesser? ADSL or SDSL?
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SDSL
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This is a structure saved somewhere in the computer where everything is properly labeled and can be quickly found if needed.
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Asset Management
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This is the smallest element used throughout a monitor screen, each with its seperately defines color
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Pixel
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These raster images use 1 bit of computer memory for each pixel in the image.
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BMP
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These vector images can be manipulated.
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object oriented images
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This is the quality of bits dedicated to storing info for a single pixel
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Bit depth
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The bumps on the bottom of a cd are called?
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Lands
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What is a REDBOOK?
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CD-DA (compact Disk / Digital Audio)
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What is YELLOWBOOK?
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CD-ROMS used in systems not stand alone
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What is BLUEBOOK?
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CD-Enhanced Cds
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What is GREENBOOK?
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CD-I (Interactive) used for games and educational purposes
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What is ORANGEBOOK?
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CD-R and CR-RW
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White is WHITEBOOK?
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VCD Video CD example KAraoke
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What is SCARLETBOOK?
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The Super Audio CD High Res Music
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These can carry frequencies up to 10,000MHZ and can achieve transmissions at rates up to 10mbps.
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Coaxial Cables
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This is the system that several types of signals can be transmitted. ranging from 6mhz bandwidth for tv
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Satellite
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Derived from radar technology, these systems carry speech data and video reansmissions
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microwave
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This was used by Samuel Morse to create the Morse Code
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The Telegraph
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What is a network?
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A connection between servers and clients
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A multisided figure with 3 or more sides
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Polygon
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The DVD Forun consist of ?
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Industry manufacturers and software companies
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Encapsulating data in packets is done by
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ethernet
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The printing industry standard
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TIFF
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An object oriented image file format
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EPS
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Free Gif images
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PNG
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This is a compressed audio format widely used on the internet
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MP3
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The standard sound file for microsoft
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WAV
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This phone line can support telephone and internet services on the same line
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ISDN
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The look of an image onto another
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Texture
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Allowing a user to jump from one place to another on a platform
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Hypermedia
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A process where the image is cut into the surface
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Intagilo
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This channel allows you to add effects to an image
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Alpha Channel
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The 2-D illusion of depth (from the texture maps)
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Bump map
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The color and the look (from the texture maps)
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image map
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The reflection properties ( from the texture maps)
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Material Map
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Converts 3d models to 2d image (from the texture maps)
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rendering
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