Since Enlightenment is a Compositing Window Manager, you get those fancy drop shadows and window transparencies.

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Four different compositing methods are provided for maximum creative control, including Additive, Average, Bright and Dark.

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Enlightenment, more specifically Enlightenment 16 or simply E16, is a Compositing Window Manager and is touted as "The original eye-candy window manager".

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Surround View creates a bird's-eye view of the vehicle by compositing images from four cameras around the vehicle, helping drivers maneuver in tight situations.

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He had to quit his regular job to focus on all aspects of Wageuzi -- from 3D modeling and animation to compositing and lighting.

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Canonical originally planned to replace the aging X with another display server called Wayland, but the developers apparently couldn't bend the compositing-friendly protocol to their cross-device whims.

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The ioFX is also designed to accelerate video playback and rendering, video and image editing and compositing, encoding and transcoding as well as other data-intensive activities required in contemporary digital production.

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Compositing results can be viewed in real time on the camera's LCD monitor, and there is a one-step Undo command that allows photographers to delete an image and try again if desired.

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First, compositing supervisor Marshall Krasser reminds us that in order to truly convey the number of layers in each of these shots, these slide shows would have to be ten times longer and far more detailed.

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