Parallax (disambiguation)

A parallax is the difference in the angular position of two stationary points relative to each other from different viewing positions. Parallax may also refer to:

Astronomy

• Stellar parallax, uses actual geometric parallax to determine distance
• Dynamical parallax, a method of measuring the distance to a visual binary star
• Photometric parallax method
• Spectroscopic parallax
• Parsec (pc), parallax of one arcsecond with a baseline of 1 AU, and equal to 3.26 light years.

Business

• Parallax, Inc. (company), designer and manufacturer of microcontrollers
• Parallax Software, creator of the Descent series

Comics

• The Parallax Man, six issue American independent color comic book
• Parallax (comics), DC comic book character

Literature

• The Neanderthal Parallax, trilogy of novels by Robert J. Sawyer
• PARALLAX, a novel by Jon F. Merz

Music

• Parallax (Greg Howe album), 1995 album by Greg Howe
• Parallax (Atlas Sound album), 2011 album by Atlas Sound
• The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues, 2011 EP by Between the Buried and Me

People

• Samuel Rowbotham (1816–1864), who used the pseudonym "Parallax" when promoting flat-earth theories

Technology

• Parallax mapping, 3D graphics rendering technique
• Parallax Propeller, 32bit microcontroller with 8 CPU cores
• Parallax, Inc. (company), a robotics kit and part company
• Parallax scrolling, special scrolling technique in computer graphics

Television and film

• The Parallax View, 1974 film
• Parallax (TV series), children's science-fiction series
• "Parallax" (Star Trek: Voyager), episode of Star Trek: Voyager

Other uses

• Dynamical parallax, an (annual) parallax which is computed from such an estimated distance