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![]() If you've stood in a paint store looking at swatches and wondered how to find 2, 3 or 4 colors that will look right together in your living room, then you'll appreciate Painter's Picker's system for choosing color schemes. If you've ever mixed paint in school or looked at a color chart in an optometrist's office, then you're familiar with the kind of color wheel that Painter's Picker gives you. Painter's Picker is the simplest way to perform complex color selection in almost any Mac OS X application. It also adds more precise controls for choosing saturation, hue angle, and brightness. It adds the ability to choose related colors, such as complementary colors, analogous colors, etc. Painter's Picker puts an interactive color wheel in almost every Mac OS X application. Needless to say you can also import color lists created with other color pickers. Painter's Picker features both five different analogous and tetradic schemes and four complex complementary schemes. You can select your own colors, find ones that match these and export that list to use in other applications. Another feature I particularly liked was being able to create and save color schemes. Angle can even be entered as an equation. Painter's Picker also easily lets you set saturation, hue, angle and birghtness. You can find related colors, select nearest web safe tones, or choose closely related tints and shades. Choosing a color in the wheel is the simple part, but the exciting bit comes with all the advanced features. While this program won't work on its own, you'll have to drag it to your color picker folder in your Library, it works in a variety of applications, mainly Apple, Macromedia and Adobe ones. If you'd like to learn how to make the best use of your iPhone, consider signing up for our free Tip of the Day.Even though extremely simple applications, color pickers have some sort of aura to them, which I can't really define. If you feel that reverting to the previous iOS version is still the best option for you despite the setbacks mentioned above, follow the instructions below covering how to uninstall an iOS update. Note: All iOS 14 versions and iOS 15.0 and some iOS 16 versions have been unsigned by Apple, so you can no longer downgrade your iPhone software to these versions. To quickly check this, go to and select your device and desired software version to see if the iOS is still signed. If the software version is no longer signed, Apple has stopped supporting the iOS version and you cannot downgrade. ![]() ![]() Make sure the previous software version is still signed by Apple.This is because there is no way to downgrade your watchOS, and this may cause incompatibilities. Apple Watch users might lose some functionality. If you’ve already installed the latest watchOS on an Apple Watch, you may not be able to fully use your wearable after downgrading your iPhone software.While you can still use an earlier backup, you will still be losing some data. This is because a later version backup cannot be used after you downgrade to an earlier software version. You will lose any data from after your latest iOS update.Because of this process, there are a few important points you need to consider before making the decision to uninstall the latest iOS: To reinstall an iOS update, you'll need to download the previous software version on your computer, restore your iPhone to factory settings, load the downloaded software on your iPhone, then restore your data from a previous backup. It's not hugely impressive, but even surviving just one more attack can be worth it. Since my dd brought me back to 125.it meant that I had healed past 151 health. Pots do 30 damage normally and a whopping 150 damage on heightened security. I did my best to avoid his attacks and bring his health down for a bit, but he broke another pot. I was using acorn so I breezed through until the second phase before losing it's effects.where Hades hit me with his green skull that activates his boiling blood and then he spun attacked me and broke a pot.I had heightened security on. Anyway, I remember one run in particular, I came in with only 1 dd and at full health of like 250. No Patroclus in your run, fighting Asterius EM3 miniboss, maybe an approval process screwing you over.etc. It could be a combination like benefits package 2 enemies summoned from a trial of the gods where both gods have awful trials. Typically, you'll have more than enough dds to deal with Hades, but sometimes you just get unlucky. I was really lucky I was using a shield and didn't have tight deadline on though.įor when it helped with a dd run.well there have been a few runs it's been helpful. At low health, I backed off again.and repeat. Got a ton of my health back playing safe like this and once I was near full I started being more aggressive. So I turtled since Beowulf is still a shield. Well for the 18 heat Beowulf sd run, I had a run that just wasn't pumping out enough damage, so when I got to Hades and he promptly blasted off my sd I was left with a pitiful amount of health. That being said, should I consistently do 30+ heat runs then I'd probably care more about survival than big number damage and might thus be more welcoming to Athena boons. You also rarely get to zero DD so you never really benefit from the small regen Deadly Reversal diluting my chance at getting Artemis Fully Loaded, Hunting Blades, Mirage Shot or Unshakable Mettle diluting my chance at getting Poseidon Mirage Shot etc.) On the topic of Stubborn Roots, well, it's just no damage so it's not what I'm looking for. Divine dash is also a precursor to duo boons that dilute the boon pool of other gods (eg. In particular, i turn away divine dash for the more offensive dashes (or dashes that are precursors to/requirements for desired offensive boons). Which means I prefer to invest more into dps than survival turning away defensive boons of athena for more offensive boons from other gods. Personally after having become more adept at dodging, timing and positioning, I no longer worry about health that much. Blizzard Shot I go back and forth on but can be effective sometimes. The bad ones are really bad or unplayable: Freezing Vortex, Cold Embrace (not even once), Stubborn Roots. The good ones are amazing: Cold Fusion, Crystal Clarity, and Ice Wine (my personal favorite boon that I can explain further if anyone wants). I go for it often because it's really sweet (especially when it takes out bosses) but I'm not sure how actually good it is. Winter Harvest I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on. ![]() ![]() It's wonderful in Elysium against the Souls because you can hit kill them with a few Snow Bursts as you load up your bow and then unleash the full attack on actual enemies. 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The sniper Rifle is good for the end when you are being chesed, and for distance shots on the cliffs. Dont use in the room where you are planting the c3 though. The shotgun is good for clearing mass quantities of bad guys. ![]() With the RPG use the quick equip index to refill rapidly, just equip and unequip to refill. 2 reasons, you dont have to worry about running out of ammo and it is silent and just as affective as shooting someone. Personally I think the knife is the most powerfull weapon in the game. Grenades are a good distraction, throw them in an area opposite of where you want to go to draw your enemies away, same with the TNT. Use the silencers spairingly, usually in high alert places like Grasni Grad.ĭont hesitate to shoot the damn dogs with a silenced weapon, they are far more dangerouse in some areas then guards especialy in your sneek suit. If you want to use stealth to beat the game, become proficcient in cutting them to ribbons and tranquilizing. Use claymores to block entrence ways or when there are alot of ennemies near, just be careful where you put them so you dont blow yourself up. Use your summersault technique when evading dogs or guards, especially the ones with the shields. or keep it for boss battles and drop it for them to eat. Periodically throw away old food or you will use up alot of medicine healing yourself. If you get surrounded equip thermogoggles then use a few stun grenades to stun your enemies and blind them. Tranq your enimies, drag them to a safe area then finish them off. Use your knife to slit throats as much as possible. Watch your camo index, the better you are at hiding the easier you can move around. There are no cheats for this game but here are some strategies for making it easier: The End's sniper boss section no longer happens however and you don't get his rifle or his camo so it your choice. ![]() After the cut scene quickly equip the sniper rifle and shot The End in the head. It also helps if you have life medicine for this battle.īefore you reach the warehouse take a left of the river section and pick up the dragonety. Use your knife wait for her to attack you then hit her with it to knock her down, get behind her then do it agian. ![]() Use the shotgun quik equip, wait for him to do the lightning thing then shoot him in the back or from the side. Dont try to use claymors though, have had little success with them in boss battles except for the FURY. Follow him and shoot him with the shotgun or sniper rifle for distance shots. Its no different use the thermal goggles to track him. To get out of the prison cell quickly without using the fake death pill use 144.75 on the codec to open the door.Įquip the thermal goggles and corner yourself, then wait for him and shoot him with your shotgun. These give you accses to the healing radio whitch help recharge your stamina. ![]() The tube has a window designed for escape of the generated X-ray photons.The anode is usually made out of tungsten or molybdenum.The anode is precisely angled at 1-20 degrees off perpendicular to the electron current so as to allow escape of some of the X-ray photons which are emitted essentially perpendicular to the direction of the electron current.Mechanically spun to increase the area heated by the beam.The anode is specially designed to dissipate the heat and wear resulting from this intense focused barrage of electrons:.An Electrostatic Lens to focus the beam onto a very small spot on the anode.In the end-window tubes, the filament is around the anode and the electrons have a curved path. There are two designs: end-window tubes and side-window tubes. The high voltage potential is between the cathode and the anode, the electrons are then accelerated and hit the anode. ![]() In the Coolidge tube, the electrons are produced by thermionic effect from a tungsten filament heated by an electric current. It works with a very good quality vacuum (10-6 Torr). The Coolidge tube, also called hot cathode tube, is the most widely used. The Crookes tube was improved by William Coolidge in 1913. Tubes of this type were rarely screened from the operator as the effects of repeated exposure of x-rays to tissue was unknown. This tube can not produce X-rays continuously. When these electrons hit the target, they are slowed down, producing the X-rays (Bremsstrahlung). This would be heated while the tube operated until the output was restored.Ī high voltage is made between the electrodes this induces an ionization of the residual air, and thus an electron flow or "discharge" from the cathode to the anode. The side tube (at the top in the illustration) contained a few mica sheets which would release small amounts of gas when heated by an electric heater wire. In operation, the residual gas in the tube would be adsorbed by the glass and the metal electrodes leading to a reduction in the x-ray output. In later designs the position of the anode and anticathode on the bulb was interchanged, but the actual anode target remained in the same place. In most designs it had an aluminium plate on it similar to the cathode, but not curved. The remaining electrode is the anticathode. It contains an aluminum cathode with a curved shape to concentrate the electron flow on the anode, or "target". It is a glass bulb with around a thousandth of sea-level atmospheric pressure of air (approximately 100 pascals or 1 torr). The Crookes tube is also called discharge tube or cold cathode tube. It was used to make a visible fluorescence on minerals. For example, see the collection's cold cathode therapy tube.Historically, the first X-ray tube was invented by Sir William Crookes. Nevertheless, the use of glass as a target had some advantages and the method was not completely abandoned. Perhaps the first major advance in X-ray tube design was the incorporation of a metal target, something that resulted in greater X-ray intensities than possible with a glass target. Second, the low intensity X-ray output required long exposures and these tubes could not hold up to the workload. First, because the X-rays originated over a rather large area, the resulting X-ray images lacked sharpness. These tubes had two major shortcomings in terms of their ability to produce X-rays. Since the bombardment of the glass also produces a fluorescence, it was postulated that there was a connection between fluorescence and the emission of X-rays. The cathode rays (electrons) strike the large flat end of the tube which becomes the source of the X-rays. The longer glass extension pointing downwards is simply a support arm. The flat disk at the left end is the cathode while the electrode in the short side arm at the bottom is the anode. Although it is not certain what type of tube Rontgen was using when he discovered X-rays, this is the type of tube most commonly assumed to be involved. Developed by William Crookes to investigate electrical discharges in gas. This is the classic version of what is often known as a Crookes tube. |
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