This amazing video remixes the sprites from the 8-bit SNES Mario game as a physics tutorial on wave action. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: July 10, 2005 - July 16, 2005 Archives] Reference
The backgrounds are high-res but the sprites are the same lower resolution as the other. From Wordnik.com. [RPGamer] Reference
One way of having fewer images is the use of so-called sprites, where several images are stored in one. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Pingdom] Reference
Hundreds and later thousands of small graphics called sprites were the building blocks for all things visual in a game. From Wordnik.com. [Blogbot - forsiden] Reference
They are nothing compared with displays high above the clouds, where towering red lights known as sprites shoot up to the edge of space. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
To create programs in Scratch, you simply drop "sprites" onto a canvas. From Wordnik.com. [ACM TechNews] Reference
Study co-author Sentman at the University of Alaska started calling them "sprites" shortly after and the moniker stuck. From Wordnik.com. [Mysterious ”Sprites” Light Shows Captured on Film | Impact Lab] Reference
One listing of comics based on these "sprites" (that's the nerd word) has "more than 1,200 entries," says this Wired article. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-07-01] Reference
Radio waves suggest lightning 'sprites' create powerful electron beams. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
SketchNation is a game that allows the player to select all the "sprites". From Wordnik.com. [MobileWhack.com] Reference
Researchers call the bolts "sprites"; they are red, fleeting, and tend to come in bunches. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The phenomenon is caused by thunderstorms, which can cause mysterious "sprites" that zip across the sky. From Wordnik.com. [NASA Astrobiology Magazine] Reference
I have read a story of a lady, Elfie, who had a great many little unearthly creatures, a kind of sprites, to attend upon her. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
"I have read a story of a lady, Elfie, who had a great many little unearthly creatures, a kind of sprites, to attend upon her. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
So the watchful sprites flew off to their places. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
And the sweet balm these love-winged sprites convey. From Wordnik.com. [Home Lyrics] Reference
Unhallow'd sprites, and earth-born phantoms flee thee. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
Wherein they are afrayde of sprites and cankred witches 'spight. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
"The water-sprites had rolled our stone out of its noose, and we had floated away.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Rosebud made the centerpiece, with all the other pretty sprites in a circle about her. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
Now all is sad, solitary and dreary, the haunt of sprites and spectres of nameless terror. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
People used to think these lights were tended by naughty sprites who lured men into trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
Dearly beloued/beleue not euery sprit/but proue the sprites/whether they are of Godd or not. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger] Reference
In fact, the slow down was the result of too many characters and sprites in the area at once. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossible Man - Ep.15: Journey and a Half] Reference
First came a group of thirty of the village children, dressed as water sprites, and blowing on soft-toned silver horns. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Polly At Play] Reference
We heard them say that it was a strange sort of isle, for sprites had come to the boat, to take off the sails and oars. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
Ten thousand little sprites flitted swiftly through the chambers of her brain, humming, singing, weeping, but always busy, busy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
They waved their hands to me and sped like sprites along the gallery; and I waited, wondering what more the night would bring forth. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
This was followed by a wild, elfin passage in triple time -- a sort of grotesque interlude, like the dance of sprites upon the sward. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference
Similar folk-tales are to be met with in other parts of the world, and the list of water-sprites and river-goddesses is almost endless. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
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