The artists use as points of departure a wide spectrum of inspiration from personal, archival material to cultural myth and memory, both real and imagined. (cjamesgallery.com)
He mines literature and Art History for scenes that provide points of departure for his fantastical abstractions. (paceprints.com)
All engineers know that it could never be used practically, but it forms a useful point of departure in understanding more realistic systems and provides a benchmark for comparison at theoretical level. (newscientist.com)