The robot stepped out of the vault and scanned the heavens for about half a minute, probably measuring parallax effects so it could see for itself how fast the asteroid was traveling through this solar system.
This reduction mimics the parallax effects which the eye expects to see, and tends to make columns look taller and straighter than they are while entasis adds to that effect.
This could not be explained as a parallax effect caused by the motion of the Earth around the Sun.
"Um ... they're not very close, Captain; by the magnification and the parallax effect, I'd say they were, oh, a couple of hundred thousand kilometers."
Exerion is a shoot 'em up game featuring parallax effects and inertia simulation, something notable for 1983.
These points vary because different planets' axes are oriented differently (the apparent positions of the stars also change slightly because of parallax effects).
Episode II was noticeably harder than its predecessor, and featured much better and for its time stunning 2-D graphics, including impressive parallax scrolling effects and detailed and well-animated characters and backgrounds.
The PPU allows only one scrolling layer, though the horizontal scroll can be changed on a per-scan line basis for a parallax effect.
Target Earth is memorable for its well-developed storyline (particularly for an action shooter), catchy music, impressive parallax effects for its time, reward mechanics, and legendary difficulty.
Scrolling displays built up of individual tiles can be made to 'float' over a repeating background layer by animating the individual tiles' bitmaps in order to portray the parallax effect.