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'Starry Heavens' is a large scale game installation where players negotiate a grid of steel disks.
I/O saturation was most apparent at the end of the initial wave of docking jobs when multiple log files are simultaneously written to disk and grid maps for the next docking jobs are loaded.
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As illustrated in Figure 3, each grid contains a competition area, the disk region within a radius of from the grid center.
The ETDRS grid, with a size of 16 disk areas, is centered on the fovea, and the region within the grid is assessed for retinal thickening.
Experiments 3 and 4 showed that manipulations which were sufficient to destroy the Hermann grid illusion did not reduce the disk detection thresholds.
"When the white disks in a scintillating grid are reduced in size, and outlined in black, they tend to disappear.
