And he has, although this may be an illusion produced by the graininess of the image, a dimple in his chin.

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There was a graininess to the air, which had itself warmed and grown windless, as it always did before a storm.

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The resulting graininess and color shifts make the viewfinder virtually unusable.

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The latter is caused by HTC's penchant for applying noise-reducing blur -- essentially melting neighboring areas of like color into one so as to reduce graininess.

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As the sun readies itself for the day's end, the light turns hazy and golden, coating every scene with the warm graininess of a Super 8 home movie.

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Because radiation from the Crab nebula is so energetic, the electrons that created it must have been travelling very close to the speed of light so close that the difference between the two speeds would bump up against Planck-scale graininess, and show up in the spectrum of the radiation.

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