For example, if you have a parallax effect on your WordPress theme, it has a foreground and background.

02. Hadaka Co This Japanese parallax scrolling website is a lot – too much really for many uses, but it's a stunning example of the impact that parallax scrolling can still make.

Parallax and the Heliocentric Model As long as I am talking about parallax, I should include the most important and interesting example from astronomy: stellar parallax.

Sherwin says that judicious use of parallax effects may make more sense in augmented-reality applications, where the faux-3D effect of an interface element is more directly mapped onto real life.

On iOS, the parallax effect is, of course, entirely simulated by the operating system’s software, with a little help from a technology that was originally conceived for rocket guidance.

Does this phone parallax actually look like it should? For this example, I tilted the phone forward and backward. What about a side-to-side tilt? Does that have the same parallax effect?

The parallax effect is what makes it look like you can see under the icons on your screen to see your wallpaper. The icons shift subtly when you move the phone. Why did Apple add parallax? In an ...