In the miniatures of the Herāt school, numerous figures, in groups or singly, are shown on various planes, one above the other, using the entire picture area.
She's turned to the right, but (contrary to normal portrait practice) most of the picture area is to her left, behind her, not in front of her, restricting her personal space.
An improved version of 8-mm stock, called Super-8 film, was designed with the idea of reducing the sprocket-hole size and employing the space thus made available for a larger picture area.
In a camera this reduction in oblique illumination results in darkened corners of the picture, but, if the reduction in brightness is gradual, it is not likely to be detected because the eye adapts quickly to changing brightness as the eyes scan over the picture area.
True, widescreen would give you 50% more total picture area and double the viewable area for letterboxed movies.
The picture area contains just as many pixels as before, but with more of them now devoted to the subject area you want, its details are clearer.
If you have any pictures from last night, please upload them to the wiki picture area (or place a link to buzznet or flickr or wherever you've posted them).
Given identical diagonal dimensions, a screen with the HD 16-to-9 width-to-height ratio gives you 10% less picture area than a standard 4-to-3 model.
R. C. Harvey defined comics as "pictorial narratives or expositions in which words (often lettered into the picture area within speech balloons) usually contribute to the meaning of the pictures and vice versa".
For primary astrocyte, the IOD and area of the whole picture (AREA) were measured, and the immunostaining intensity was calculated as above.
