While Krieger hints at elements of landscape across her canvases — spherical shapes for rocks and boulders, dynamic lines climbing up and across the canvas for trees — she is really after an expression of what occurs in the atmosphere, far above ground, and how those occurrences affect what we can see, feel and touch back on the earth's surface. (rachellekrieger.com)
Droplets normally form spherical shapes to minimize the surface area required to contain a given volume of liquid. (sciencedaily.com)
The group defined a plutoid as an object orbiting the sun at an average distance greater than Neptune's, massive enough to assume a nearly spherical shape (as planets do) but not massive enough to clear its orbital path of other bodies (as planets also do). (discovermagazine.com)