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Checkerboard meaning
A pattern of squares of alternating colours. | A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 8×8 squares, used to play chess and draughts/checkers. | A style of negative cutting that avoids visible splice marks.
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The festive meat was a treat of baked ham with its brown-sugared rind cut in a checkerboard pattern pinned with maraschino cherry and pineapple slices, or a plump chicken with bread and onion, thyme and giblet stuffing and over-full gravy boats.
The researchers figured out that as soon as those checkerboard patches appeared in the electron arrangements, the materials fell into the pseudogap.
The store’s facade is a blue checkerboard with various patterns, and the interior is a golden checkboard.
Two plays later, Sampson scampered 23 yards off right tackle into the checkerboard and gave the Vols their first lead of the night.
And in terms of seating at the stadiums, there won’t be a “checkerboard” arrangement; fans can’t stay apart from one another when entering stadiums, buying concessions or using the restroom.
Basically, this means the PS4 maxes at a 1080p resolution, the Pro at 4K (mostly checkerboard rather than native) and is most comfortable at 30fps.
Meanwhile, on PS5, the game runs at checkerboard 4k resolution at 60 FPS with HDR.
A checkerboard-like grid of red, green and blue colors called a Bayer pattern determines which color each pixel records.
The orange and white team colors date all the way back to 1891, and the checkerboard end zones are some of the most unique in the football world.
But this time around their traditional checkerboard is intentionally faded and looks more like one you could play chess on and goes right down the front.
For these groups, the region is not simply a checkerboard of domineering states, but also a complex and constantly shifting fabric of local and transnational actors.
Also in 1981, they played a concert at Chicago's Checkerboard Lounge with Muddy Waters, in what would be one of his last public appearances before his death in 1983.
Checkerboard patterns ( basketweave ) are also possible, the smallest of which is known as seed/moss stitch: the stitches alternate between knit and purl in every wale and along every row.
For example, the plaintext alphabet could be written out in a grid, then every letter in the message replaced by its co-ordinates (see Polybius square and Straddling checkerboard ).
The colored shapes can be randomly pieced or follow a strict order to create a specific effect, e.g. value (light to dark) progressions, or checkerboard effects.
The corn would not be planted in rows as is done by European agriculture, but in a checkerboard/hex fashion across a field, in separate patches of one to six stalks each.
This new peripheral development led to the end of the traditional checkerboard structure that previously governed the city center.