A few lenses contain t-tops on one side of the aperture ring, and f-stops on the other side.  The f-stops are white.  A small amount of light can be lost of a lens contains a number of glass elements.  The t-stops function in place of f-stops for setting exposure.  T-stops are designed to work with the degree of light striking the film (as opposed to finding the amount using math).  The t-stop sets the exposure, and the f-stop shows the amount of depth of field one has.

Refers to the rules that determine how a table is arranged using CSS.  Usually a table in CSS is created based on the following rules: 1) A row group’s box surrounds the exact grid cells as the row boxes inside of it.  2) Every row box includes an individual row of grid cells.  And every row box in a table makes up the table from top to bottom following the order they occur in the source document.  Therefore, there are as many row elements as there are grid rows.  3) A column box surrounds one or multiple columns of grid cells.  These column boxes are positioned by one another following the order they occur. The 1st column box is positioned on the left side for languages that are left-to-right (and right for right-to-left languages).  4) The box of a column group surrounds the exact grid cells as the column boxes it surrounds.  5) The document language defines the spanning of cells of rows or columns.  6)  The box of a cell may not go past the last row box of a row group or table.  A cell needs to be cut short to fit in the row group or table that surrounds it if the table structure causes a cell box to reach past the last row box.  

A tabloid-sized page is a size frequently used for newspaper or portrait layouts.  The page measures 11x17 inches (tabloid-sized page is not the same thing as a 11x17 inch spread – this is created from two letter-sized pages).

A camera gauge that measures the speed of the film as the camera runs.

Tags are delimited sets of characters placed within the text of style sheets, or are internally coded.  Tags are used for paragraphs to show the purpose of the paragraphs.  The style sheet associated with a tag determines the actual type specification. 

A tail is the end of a roll or shot. 

A tail slate is the mark on a shot that occurs at the end of a film rather than the start of the film.  Usually the phrase, “Tail Slate!” is called out prior to clapping the slate.  This ensures that the person syncing the film understands what is going on.  When doing a tail slate, the slate is positioned upside down in order to mark the shot.  The upside down position signifies that the mark is completed at the end of the film. 

A take is several different kinds of the same shot. 

An empty reel used to pick up film on a projector after the film’s action is done.

An empty spool that picks up the film in a camera after the film has been exposed to light.

The lens positioned in front of the camera’s gate on a turret that makes the image on the film. 

The process of preparing and preserving the structure of a hide.  Hides are prepared through sanitation, a cleaning process and then worked on in order to create a quality consistent product. 

A way of attaching two pieces of film in order that they will be able to be projected as a single continuous piece of film.  Cement splices are used to cut the negative. 

A device used to transfer film to video.

A telephoto is similar to a long lens, but it is different in that a telephoto’s focal length is longer than it is physically.

A type of painting technique that involves egg yolk (or whole egg), an oil mixture, and water as the binder for the paint.  The term also refers to inexpensive opaque paints. 

A tensor is the term used to describe a muscle that grips or tightens around something. 

Part of the hip and thigh section of the body, the tensor fascia lata includes the anterior superior iliac spine.  It is located at the iliotibial band.  The function of the tensor fascia lata is to flex and abduct the thigh; it also allows the thigh to rotate.

The teres major is positioned at the lower angle of the scapula.  It is inserted below the head at the anterior surface of the humerus.  It is responsible for rotating the arm medially. 

Text wrap is the spatial relationship that exists amongst graphics and blocks of text (or amongst two blocks of text).  Usually a text wrap is rectangular in shape.  However, a text wrap may also be arbitrary or irregular in shape. 
 
 

Textura refers to certain forms of Gothic script that appear to be woven texture, because of the density and regularity of the writing.  In Latin, textura means woven.

Texture refers to the surface quality of a 2D picture plane, as well as 3D objects.  Texture plays a key role in setting the piece of artwork apart and giving it both a physical feel and an emotional one.  Sand, tiny objects, string and scratching the surface are all means to create texture on a piece of artwork. 

The way in which a fabric is presented; for example, a fabric may be pleated, smocked or crushed. 

A number of realist paints from the United States began making artwork that started the Ashcan School.  The catalyst for the movement was Robert Henri.  Henri, along with newspaper illustrators Everett Shinn, William Glackens, and John Sloan, worked together to create was they considered the realities of life as being beautiful and thus true art.  Their artwork featured rough urban life, the poor and the disenfranchised in the United States.  Their style was loose and not like the refined art pushed in American art academies.  Paint was applied thickly and brushstrokes were textured over the canvas. 

As time went on, these artists along with Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, and Arthur Davies worked to created a self-organized and self-selected exhibit that created history in 1908 because it defied the academies and was seen as a symbol of rebellion against the typical art of the day.  The exhibition acted as a model for the famous exhibit The Armory Show of 1914, because it did not include prizes or a jury. 

 

A series of directions that start a take.  It often goes something like, “Roll sound!....Roll camera!.......Mark it!.....Action!”

The cascade refers to how CSS determines which styles are used in a website when styles conflict with one another.  To determine the case 1) Locate the declarations that include a selector that pairs up with an element 2) Organize by weight (importance) the declarations associated to the element 3) Remember that rules containing !important are weighted more than rules that are not marked with it.  Therefore organize by origin the declarations associated with the element.  The three origins are user agent, reader and author.  Typically an author’s styles overrule the reader’s styles.  However, !important reader styles overrule !important author styles.  A user agent’s default styles are overruled by both author and reader styles.  3) Organize by specificity the declarations associated to the element.  Elements with a lower specificity have less weight than those elements with a higher specificity.  4) Lastly, organize by order the declarations associated with the element.  A declaration has more weight when it is located further down in a stylesheet.  If declarations are located in an imported style sheet, they are given the status of coming before other declarations in the style sheet that imports.  They therefore do not possess as much weight as other rules in the stylesheet that imports them.

The Gordon Parks International Photo Competition

Fort Scott Community College awards prizes of $1,000, $500, and $250 to artists with photography work reflecting significant themes in the life and the work of Gordon Parks (such as family values or injustice). 

Projector or camera parts that transfer the film at intervals.  The rollers after and before the loops, the connecting gears and the pull-down claw all create the movement.  Any registration pin and often the shutter are also considered to be part of the movement. 

Two hinged sticks joined to a single board.  It records a shot’s number and sync point at the start of each scene.  The “clap” of the clapstick signals the sync point.

The term may refer to the legs of a tripod, or the tripod itself.  The term may also refer to the clapper on the slate.

In calligraphy, “thick” refers to a stroke that is strong, blunt or heavy.

In calligraphy, “thin” refers to a stroke that is very fine.  “Thin” is sometimes referred to as a hairline.

A term referring to materials that are viscous and heavy if left alone; however, if impacted (whether through stirring or shaking it for example) the material will start to move easily. 

Three-point perspective is a type of linear perspective.  All categories of linear perspectives include a horizon line and a stationary point (the position of the observer). In three-point perspective there are also two vanishing points somewhere on the horizon; however, unlike two-point perspective, there also exists a vanishing point above or below the horizon line that the vertical lines disappear to.   Three-point perspective is the same as oblique perspective. 

 

A thumbnail is a tiny picture that is drawn roughly to get one’s design ideas upon paper.  A thumbnail is used primarily as a thinking tool aid – it helps a person figure out the basic layout of an idea. 

Part of the lower leg, the tibialis anterior includes the upper lateral and anterior surface of tibia.  It is located at the bottom surface of the first metatarsal and the cuneiform bone of the foot.  The tibialis anterior is responsible for bending the joint of the ankle, turning the bottom of the foot inward, and bringing the top of the foot upward.

Hardwearing fabric that is woven tightly together. 

A tool that harnesses power directly from the mains; it goes past the fuse box and electrical wiring of a filming location.

A TIFF file is a graphics file format that is independent of any particular device.  They can be worked with on either Mac or IBM computers, and they can be output to PostScript printers. 

A tool used to wind film on a core, giving the film a smooth edge.  It is usually placed on the right rewind on an editing bench; it is an efficient means of opening and tightening the split reels if one’s intent is to simply rewind a complete roll. 

Tiling involves the printing of a page design in parts with edges that overlap in order that the pieces may be pasted together.

A time lapse occurs when a single frame shooting speeds up the film movement over an extended period of time.  Usually it involves a single frame that is shot after a consistent pause. 

A print that involves a timer; a timer is used to time every shot.

The title given to a person at the lab who is responsible for going through each film scene and selecting the printing lights.

The title given to the lab’s method of selecting the printing lights for the appropriate exposure and color to create a print.  The term “timing” is not what it sounds like, as there is not much to do with actual time.

The lamps of the contact printer used at a lab that are measured on a scale of 1-50 in regard to their brightness.  50 is the brightest, and 1 is the darkest.  The darker the light is on the negative, the brighter the print will be.  The colors red, green and blue are used in color printing. 

A recording of the timing lights and relational footages that is used by a lab to create a print.  It is used to go through the film footage and analyze whether or not there is room for any corrections.  Corrections that need to be made are written on the timing report (such as scratches…etc). 

Tombstoning occurs when two or multiple headings are positioned horizontally on a page in multi-column publications.

Tone may refer to a 1,000 Hz sine wave that is placed at the start of a tape to give a steady volume during the transferring of sound.  Tone may also refer to the tone of the room.

A dye that is not laked that can migrate or bleed in paint films that are dry.

A type of texture that features a small even grain.  It allows for some attachment for layers of a medium, such as paint or pastel.

A hardwearing durable decorative surface.

To track is to lessen the amount of space placed uniformly among characters in a line.  (This is not the same thing as kerning – a lessening of the amount of space among particular characters.)

A shot that involves the placement of a camera on a dolly that is then moved during the filming of a scene.  A tracking shot may also be referred to as a dolly shot.

The traveling or movement of one oil paint layer over another layer of paint.

A binding agent created from Astragalus plants; the gum functions in pastels and watercolor paints. 

Part shoulder girdle, the trapezius extends from a short horizontal line on the base of the skull to all of the vertebrae down to the 10th thoracic.  It is located at the spine of the scapula, the medial side of the acromion process of the scapula, and the lateral third of the clavicle.  Its upper third raises the scapula.  With the scapula remaining motionless, it draws the head upright, backward, toward the shoulder, and rotates the face to the opposite side. Its middle third brings the scapula towards the spine. The lower third brings it downward. Both sides work together to extend the head.

Part of the upper arm, the triceps include the medial and lateral heads that join to the posterior surface of the humerus. The long head joins to the lower border of the scapula, nearby to the arm socket.    All the heads connect to the triceps tendon that is positioned at the base of the ulna on its posterior side (the point is called the olecranon).    The triceps are responsible for extending the arm at elbow.

A bin on wheels that includes a lining of a fabric bag.  The bin’s top contains a row of pins from which one can hang film during the editing process.  A trim bin is not a place for garbage, it is also not a place for trims.  Rather, a trim bin is for out-takes and selects. 

Often a foot or less, trims are out-takes of a couple frames.  In order to stop any trims from getting lost, trims are placed separately from longer out-takes.  Usually they are placed in a trim book or in a separate vault box. 

The segment of the tripod that includes the tilting device and the pan that the camera is joined to.

A term describing a type of bone concave form, a trochlea is formed in a spool shape to take in a convexity at a joint and permit movement solely through one plane.

A French term meaning “deceive the eye.”  It refers to a painting that is done with immaculate detail so as to deceive the viewer that what he/she is viewing is in actuality the object, not an illusion of the object.

 

Tsundere refers to a personality that is at first defensive and aggressive, but as time goes by becomes affectionate and emotionally open.  One good example of tsundere is Asuka Langley Soryu of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

A term describing a type of bone convex form, a tuberosity is a tall, extended bump.

Pile material attached to a backing material prior to the fixing of a 2nd layer of backing material.  It lends more structural strength to the unit. 

Tungsten is 3,200K; it is the color temperature of artificial light on a color temperature scale  A tungsten filament is used for quartz lights.  Quartz lights burn at 3,200K, which is how the term originated.  If one is shooting film inside, one should use color film that is balanced for tungsten light.  If this is not done, the resulting image will take on an orange tinge.  Similarly, a correction filter should be used for tungsten balanced film when shooting outside so the resulting image will not appear too blue.  

A turret is a lens mount that rotates; it provides the opportunity to mount multiple lenses on a camera.  This in turn makes it possible to quickly move from one lens to the next.  The lens that is in use at the time of shooting a scene is called a “taking lens.” 

Woven material created from threads of colored wool; it may be a medium-weight or heavy-weight.

Multiple or a couple pieces of yarn twisted together in order to make a carpet.  Greater durability and a better maintenance of a carpet's texture are made possible the more closely the yarn threads are twisted together.

Two-point perspective is a type of linear perspective.  All categories of linear perspective include a horizon line and a stationary point (the position of the observer).  In two-point perspective, there exist two points from which an object’s lines radiate from; the sides of the object vanish to one of two vanishing points on the horizon line. An object’s vertical lines do not relate to the perspective rules of the horizontal lines.  By changing the vanishing points of the object, one can make increase or decrease the size of the object. Two-point perspective is the same as angular perspective. 

Type alignment is the placement of white space in a line of type in which the characters at their standard set width do not exactly fill the line length.  One may position type to be aligned either centered, right, right-justified, or left. 

Type families are a group of typefaces that are created with a similar design; however they each differ in their proportions and weights. 

Typeface is the set of characters designed by a type designer that involves both the lowercase and uppercase alphabetical characters, special characters, punctuation, and numbers.  Each typeface includes several fonts with various styles and sizes.