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

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

Business

 * Parallax, Inc. (company), designer and manufacturer of microcontrollers
 * Parallax Software, creator of the Descent series
 * Parallax Studio, a film and animation studio based in the American Midwest
 * Parallax Graphics, a defunct high-spec video card manufacturer

Computer technology

 * Parallax mapping, a 3D graphics rendering technique
 * Parallax Propeller, a 32-bit microcontroller with eight CPU cores
 * Parallax scrolling, a scrolling technique in computer graphics where the background content (for example, a background image of a website or app) is moved at a different speed than the foreground content while scrolling.

People

 * Samuel Rowbotham (1816–1884), who used the pseudonym "Parallax" when promoting his notion of a "flat Earth".

Print

 * PARALLAX, a vampire novel by Jon F. Merz
 * parallax (journal), an American academic journal on the topics for the disciplines of cultural studies, critical theory, and philosophy
 * Parallax: And Selected Poems by Sinéad Morrissey

Visual arts

 * Parallax barrier
 * Parallax mapping

Comics

 * Parallax (comics), a DC comic book supervillain

Film

 * The Parallax View, a 1974 American thriller film starring Warren Beatty

Television

 * Parallax (TV series), children's science-fiction series
 * "Parallax" (Star Trek: Voyager), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager

Games

 * Parallax (video game), a 1986 game for Commodore 64 by Sensible Software
 * Parallax, a fictional organization from the video game 2064: Read Only Memories

Recorded 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
 * The Parallax II: Future Sequence, 2012 album by Between the Buried and Me
 * Parallax, a Norwegian band