The first filter that is applied to the height map is a simple Gaussian blur, which the GPU handles with ease, but which -- if left to its own devices -- would simply smooth out all the dramatic extremes in the height map and leave us with a bunch of bland rolling hills.

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Others will provide telephone consultations first in order to filter those patients who need to be seen from those who don't.

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The filter will get its first use next month in a pilot project at a landfill in central Maine.

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Instead of using senior recruiters to filter through the company's applicants, lower-level screeners process them first and only hand off the most-qualified.

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In 2000 Peugeot became the first manufacturer to sell a car (the Peugeot 607) with a diesel engine fitted with a particulate filter.

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When the Creative Filters are applied in Live View, users can preview the filter on the vari-angle three inch LCD touch screen without having to shoot the image first.

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