Parallax (disambiguation)

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Parallax is the difference in the angular position of two stationary points relative to each other from different viewing positions.

• The different viewing positions can arise from an observer's motion, called motion parallax.
• The different viewing positions can arise from the different positions of the two eyes on a person's head, called binocular parallax.
• The different viewing positions can arise from the different positions of two optical devices, called parallax error. For example, in cameras for which the viewfinder is in a different position from the lens, the photograph will differ from what is seen through the viewfinder from parallax error.

Parallax may also refer to:

In business:

• Parallax, Inc. (company), designer and manufacturer of microcontrollers
• Parallax Press, publishing house
• Parallax Software, creator of the Descent series

In literature:

• The Neanderthal Parallax, trilogy of novels by Robert J. Sawyer

In comics:

• The Parallax Man, six issue American independent colour comic book which was originally solicited for publication by El Capitan Books
• Parallax (comics), DC comic book character

In technology:

• Parallax Mapping, 3D graphics rendering technique
• Parallax Propeller, 32bit microcontroller with 8 CPU cores
• Parallax scrolling, special scrolling technique in computer graphics

In television:

• Parallax (TV series), Australian children's science-fiction series
• "Parallax" (Voyager episode), episode of Star Trek: Voyager

In other fields:

• Dynamical Parallax, method of measuring the distance to a visual binary star
• The Parallax View, 1974 movie