Many screen rendering methods can allow smooth movement of considerable complexity up to a point.

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In the rendering of screen representation there are things that can cause the data to reflow, events to be interrupted or memory to be reloaded at inopportune times, and these are the variables that Famo.us has managed to control.

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As a result, the next page a Kindle Fire customer is likely to visit will already be available locally in the device cache, enabling instant rendering to the screen.

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Adjacent to the pod is an interactive touch-screen timeline magnifying digitized exhibited documents, rendering even his nearly illegible script decipherable.

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By contrast an Nvidia graphics processing unit, or GPU, renders graphics by simultaneously hashing out the same problem for multiple pixels: textures, lighting and smooth rendering of shapes flying across the screen.

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In Chrome, the main part of the program, the kernel, is separated from the various rendering processes that draw the pages on the screen.

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He and his team analyzed the world of screen-based content and realized that there was no browser-based technology specifically built for rendering apps.

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Licensing and rendering those images would be "amazingly difficult and expensive to pull off on a small screen, " notes Linda Chaplin, vice president of Sega Mobile.

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