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3 unusual facts about Monochrome


Louis Maratier

In 1962 Maratier rejected the Abstract Expressionism which he had initially advocated and developed a more traditionally figurative, albeit minimalist, style specialising in the Monochrome still lifes for which he is now best known.

Macintosh-Like Virtual Window Manager

Although no longer under active development, MLVWM has spawned a derivative known as HaZe, a Black-and-White (or Monochrome) window manager.

Smart Messaging

Most Monochrome Nokia handsets allow the picture message to act as a screensaver.


Alfred Chicken

Two revisions exist; the monochrome original, and a Super Game Boy version with a level select feature, the latter was developed by Hookstone and released by Sunsoft in Japan.

Apple II

The video controller displayed 24 lines by 40 columns of monochrome, upper-case-only (the original character set matches ASCII characters 20h to 5Fh) text on the screen, with NTSC composite video output suitable for display on a TV monitor, or on a regular TV set by way of a separate RF modulator.

Aurotype

Aurotype is a monochrome photographic printing process that uses Gold chloride, potassium ferricyanide and ferrocyanide.

Coat of arms of Greece

The Greek government normally uses a design in which the laurel branches are monochrome blue.

Colorization

Film colorization - a process that adds color to black and white, sepia or monochrome moving-picture images

Cyan

Cyanotype, or blueprint, a monochrome photographic printing process that predates the use of the word cyan as a color, yields a deep cyan-blue colored print based on the Prussian blue pigment.

Digital art

An image of Debbie Harry was captured in monochrome from a video camera and digitized into a graphics program called ProPaint.

Ed Krebs

He works predominantly in monochrome and is best known for his portraiture using equipment popular in the 1960s including a 1954 Rolleiflex TLR camera, a Mamiya 645, and a Koni-Omega 6x7.

Flocculus

Flocculus (pl. flocculi) - A highly illuminated sector or region of a solar surface as seen through observation in monochrome light of a chosen spectral line, in visible, or hyperspectral wavelengths, sometimes associated with, or identified with Solar prominences.

Helen Messinger Murdoch

She initially took monochrome portraits but in 1907 she discovered the Autochrome colour process developed by the Lumière brothers.

Hercules InColor Card

The Hercules InColor Card (GB222) was an IBM PC compatible graphics controller card released in April 1987 by Hercules Computer Technology, Inc. After the success of the monochrome Hercules Graphics Card which gained wide developer support, the market was changing with the release of new colour cards which were becoming increasingly affordable.

Hinton Ampner

There is a set of paintings of the four seasons by Jacob de Wit, depicting cherubs painted in a three-dimensional monochrome style.

ImageWriter

Basic color images and text were possible using a color ribbon, a feature that was supported by the original version of QuickDraw on the Macintosh (although running on a monochrome platform, actually supported output for eight colors).

Jack Tramiel

As prices dropped and the market matured, the monochrome (green text on black screen) PET was at a disadvantage in the market when compared to machines like the Apple II and Atari 800, which offered color graphics and could be hooked to a television as an inexpensive display.

Jemdet Nasr period

Similar tablets, together with splendidly painted monochrome and polychrome pottery, were also shown to Stephen Langdon, then director of the excavations at Kish, by local Arabs in 1925.

Kinora

The Kinora worked very like a flip book or a Rolodex, using images which were conventional monochrome photographic prints fixed to strong, flexible cards attached to a circular core.

Miao Xiaochun

Other works include computer graphics installations such as The Last Judgement in Cyberspace, a 3D monochrome reworking of Michelangelo's The Last Judgment from the Sistine Chapel replacing every figure with a virtual model of Miao himself.

Miss Monochrome

She cons Monochrome into handing over 19.3 billion yen worth of her fortune.

Netpbm format

The PBM format was invented by Jef Poskanzer in the 1980s as a format that allowed monochrome bitmaps to be transmitted within an email message as plain ASCII text, allowing it to survive any changes in text formatting.

Organized Nature

Monochrome, is a Romanian trio consisting of Livio, Roby and George G who were declared the Global Winners of Heineken Thirst Studio competition, which was looking for fresh new producer talent.

Orson Welles' Sketch Book

He fosters an intimate, even conspiratorial tone that makes him an impeccable embodiment of the medium's proverbial status as a guest in the front room … To our digitally accustomed eyes, the one-to-one timbre of the programme comes off like a monochrome forebear of Skype or YouTube.

Otherside

The video was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris in a black-and-white/monochrome Gothic style similar to Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, all influenced by German Expressionist art.

Shirogane

Shirogane, a character in the Monochrome Factor anime series

Solar Quest

Solar Quest uses the "classic" monochrome Cinematronics chassis introduced with Space Wars, and used a coloured plastic overlay to produce a yellow sun, blue play field, and red scoring information at the top.

The Man-eaters of Tsavo

The book has been adapted to film three times: a monochrome, British film of the 1950s, a 1952 3-D film titled Bwana Devil, and a 1996 color version called The Ghost and the Darkness, where Val Kilmer played the daring engineer who hunts down the lions of Tsavo.

Wagtail

The two remaining "monochrome" species, Mekong and African Pied Wagtail may be closely related, or a most striking example of convergent evolution.

Xerox 820

Screen: The display was a 24-line, 80-character (7×10 dot matrix) white-on-black monochrome CRT, with software-selectable variations such as reverse video, blinking, low-intensity (equivalent to grey text), and 4×4-resolution graphics.

Yasuhiro Ishimoto

Monochrome images, mostly of the backs of individual people waiting for the lights to change at the main crossroads in front of Shibuya Station.

Year of the Black Rainbow

Slant Magazine lamented, "There's no trace of Coheed's oddball eclecticism here, or of their dynamic pop sensibilities; instead the emotionally and tonally monochrome Black Rainbow gives the impression of a typically humorless metal act."


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