Split screen
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Split screen can refer to:
- a motion picture technique; see split screen (filmmaking)
- a computer graphics and video game technique; see split screen (computer graphics)Split screen (computer graphics)Split screen is a display technique in computer graphics that consists of dividing graphics and/or text into non-movable adjacent parts, typically two or four rectangular areas. This is done in order to allow the simultaneous presentation of related graphical and textual information on a computer...
- splitscreen, a name for models of the Volkswagen Type 2Volkswagen Type 2The Volkswagen Type 2, officially known as the Transporter or Kombi informally as Bus or Camper , was a panel van introduced in 1950 by German automaker Volkswagen as its second car model – following and initially deriving from Volkswagen's first model, the Type 1 , it was given the factory...
built until 1967, referring to their split windscreen - SplitScreen Multiseat Computer technique to emulate several user sessions on one single string.
- an image focusing system for reflex cameraReflex cameraReflex camera may refer to:*Single-lens reflex camera**Digital single-lens reflex cameras*Twin-lens reflex camera...
s where a beam splitterBeam splitterA beam splitter is an optical device that splits a beam of light in two. It is the crucial part of most interferometers.In its most common form, a rectangle, it is made from two triangular glass prisms which are glued together at their base using Canada balsam...
is used to generate two images where the subject is out of focusFocus (optics)In geometrical optics, a focus, also called an image point, is the point where light rays originating from a point on the object converge. Although the focus is conceptually a point, physically the focus has a spatial extent, called the blur circle. This non-ideal focusing may be caused by...
and one where it is in focus. - Split Screen (film)Split screen (film)In film and video production, split screen is the visible division of the screen, traditionally in half, but also in several simultaneous images, rupturing the illusion that the screen's frame is a seamless view of reality, similar to that of the human eye...
- a 1997 film. - Split Screen (book) - a book by Brent Hartinger first published in 2007
- Split screen was also a bug in the video game Pac-Man