So, the passive has the following basic structure:

Subject + auxiliary be + past participle (+ by + actor) optional

The past participle of most English verbs (regular verbs) in -ed, but there are some common
verbs (irregular verbs) which have -en, -n or -ne endings (e.g. done, seen, taken, shown) and
others which change in other ways (e.g. find - found).

The rules for tense when using the passive are the same as for active verbs (Grammar:
Tenses). Whatever other verbs are used to make the tense, the passive auxiliary verb
be always appears just before the past participle of the main verb.

here are two participants involved in the event described in this sentence: The segmented
vertical line and added visual interest. The base form of the verb is provide, and the
‘provider’ is The segmented vertical line, so The segmented vertical line is the actor.

The writer has chosen the actor, The segmented vertical line, as topic, and so has put it up
front as the subject of the active verb provides.

The topic can be changed from the actor to the other participant by putting the other
participant up front as the subject before a passive verb.

The participants in this sentence (the segmented vertical line and added visual interest) are the
same as those in the original sentence. Once again, the base form of the verb is provide, and
the 'provider' is the segmented vertical line, so the segmented vertical line is still the actor.

However, here the writer has chosen a participant other than the actor as topic, putting added
visual interest up front as the subject of the passive verb is provided. This means that the
sentence is now basically about added visual interest rather than about the segmented vertical
line.

In this passive sentence, the actor appears after the verb, introduced with by