In photography, a color positive mounted on a cardboard or plastic frame so that it can be put in a slide projector and displayed at an arbitrary size on any convenient wall.

Ordinary photo negatives cannot just be clipped and framed to make a slide, since a slide must be a positive image. To make slides, use slide film.

Also. what is said to the narrator of Fight Club during a dream sequence. It is stated twice, once by a penguin and again by Marla Singer who are featured at the end of the narrator's guided meditation session, when those being guided are supposed to see their power animal. The first time, it is quite obvious that the penguin is to be his power animal. The second time, however, Marla is where the narrator's power animal should be, illustrating the narrator's preoccupation with her.

The statement itself is probably a reference to the narrator's gradually declining mental health. By sliding, both the penguin and Marla are suggesting that he let go of reality and enter into his own delusions. Following this train of thought, this could be the moment when the narrator actually snaps, the therapy sessions that he sought for comfort actual cause his downfall, and depending on who you talk to, his resurrection.

In the script of Fight Club, this scene is much more detailed, with the narrator and the penguin sliding through museums and other fanciful illusions. To quote the book by Chuck Palahniuk:
"Ice covered the floor of the cave, and the penguin said, slide. Without any effort, we slid through tunnels and galleries."
And it all starts after this moment. Enter Tyler Durden.
A multiplayer mod for the game Quake. A typical Slide map consists of a large sloping track (like a snowboarding run). At the top of the track, there is a gateway, that when passed through equips the player with a hoverboard. The player can then board down the track and try to achieve the fastest time. However, an alternative mode of play is available (usually to players who have reached the bottom of the track, but sometimes reachable from other places on the course): Instead of getting a board, the player can explore the gantries and spectator areas on foot, and find prime sniping positions to attack the racing players.

There are checkpoints that must be passed to complete the track, as well as frag powerups (kinda like Mario Kart coins), and the ability to jettison your board if you are hopelessly short of momentum. Slide was absolutely excellent, one of the best mods I've played, and it is a mystery to me why no-one ever developed a version for any subsequent FPS.

Homepage: http://singe.telefragged.com/slide/

SLIDE: Scene Language for Interactive Dynamic Environments (Computer Graphics)

SLIDE is a "language for describing and interacting with hierarchical, dynamic environments". It is mainly a teaching tool for undergraduate Computer Graphics courses, similar to Nachos for Operating Systems. It re-implements many of the details of OpenGL such as bound clipping, scan-line processing, z-buffering, Gouraud shading, ad nauseam.

A SLIDE model is composed of geometry, lights, and cameras. These components are placed together in a directed-acyclic graph, called a scene graph through grouping and instancing.

It used to be called GLIDE (G="Graphics") until 3dFX trademarked it and sued over the name. But look who's around now... 3dFX/GLIDE or Berkeley/SLIDE?

Slide (?), v. t. [imp. Slid (?); p. p. Slidden (?), Slid; p. pr. & vb. n. Slidding (?).] [OE. sliden, AS. slidan; akin to MHG. sliten, also to AS. slidor slippery, E. sled, Lith. slidus slippery. Cf. Sled.]

1.

To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

2.

Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet

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They bathe in summer, and in winter slide. Waller.

3.

To pass inadvertently.

Beware thou slide not by it. Ecclus. xxviii. 26.

4.

To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.

Ages shall slide away without perceiving. Dryden.

Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole. Pope.

5.

To slip when walking or standing; to fall.

Their foot shall slide in due time. Deut. xxxii. 35.

6. Mus.

To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.

7.

To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.

[Obs. or Colloq.]

With good hope let he sorrow slide. Chaucer.

With a calm carelessness letting everything slide. Sir P. Sidney.

 

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Slide, v. t.

1.

To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.

2.

To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.

 

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Slide, n. [AS. slide.]

1.

The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.

2.

Smooth, even passage or progress.

A better slide into their business. Bacon.

3.

That on which anything moves by sliding.

Specifically: (a)

An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down.

(b)

A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.

4.

That which operates by sliding.

Specifically: (a)

A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.

(b) Mach.

A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.

(c)

A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.

5.

A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.

6.

The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.

<-- also mudslide -->

7. Geol.

A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.

Dana.

8. Mus. (a)

A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.

(b)

An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.

9. Phonetics

A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.

10. Steam Engine (a)

Same as Guide bar, under Guide.

(b)

A slide valve.

Slide box Steam Engine, a steam chest. See under Steam. -- Slide lathe, an engine lathe. See under Lathe. -- Slide rail, a transfer table. See under Transfer. -- Slide rest Turning lathes, a contrivance for holding, moving, and guiding, the cutting tool, made to slide on ways or guides by screws or otherwise, and having compound motion. -- Slide rule, a mathematical instrument consisting of two parts, one of which slides upon the other, for the mechanical performance of addition and subtraction, and, by means of logarithmic scales, of multiplication and division. -- Slide valve. (a) Any valve which opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port. (b) A particular kind of sliding valve, often used in steam engines for admitting steam to the piston and releasing it, alternately, having a cuplike cavity in its face, through which the exhaust steam passes. It is situated in the steam chest, and moved by the valve gear. It is sometimes called a D valve, -- a name which is also applied to a semicylindrical pipe used as a sliding valve.

<-- illustration of a slide valve --> In the illustration, a is the cylinder of a steam engine, in which plays the piston p; b the steam chest, receiving its supply from the pipe i, and containing the slide valve s, which is shown as admitting steam to one end of the cylinder through the port e, and opening communication between the exhaust passage f and the port c, for the release of steam from the opposite end of the cylinder.

 

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