Sentences with phrase «as convex»

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Think of John Ashbery's «Self - Portrait in a Convex Mirror,» in which the artist Parmigianino gestures with his hand in the painted convex surface, as if welcoming us, even as the figure in the mirror pulls away.

Once it was when from the summit of a high mountain I looked over a gashed and corrugated landscape extending to a long convex of ocean that ascended to the horizon, and again from the same point when I could see nothing beneath me but a boundless expanse of white cloud, on the blown surface of which a few high peaks, including the one I was on, seemed plunging about as if they were dragging their anchors.

So long as David Shields and his fans peer into the convex mirror that stares back at them, they may be alive, but it can hardly be said that they are well.

Wanted to let you know that I made these as cupcakes (just a few over a dozen) and I think I underbaked them a little bit which caused them to collapse upon cooling, leaving them very convex on top.

Sorry to say hat what you wrote about the third component of the coffee filter is wrong, it is definitely not to plunger to press the coffee powder, it is an important component of coffee filter which prevent the flushing of hot water through the powder and allows the slow sweeping in of boiled water through the powder to ensure the taste and aroma of the coffee (please note that tiny holes and little convex shape of the platform) Many of the users who is not aware about this will keep this part away during filtering as you did here and that dilute the taste and aroma very much..

The droplets are convex so could potentially act as a liquid magnifying lens, says Li.

As I report in Quanta today, a new computer - assisted proof by the French mathematician Michaël Rao establishes that there are precisely 15 families of convex pentagons that tile the plane — including the four that Rice discovered.

It is now convex as he has shouldered much in his almost 80 years.

Dad, I see now with the 4 corners of my imagination, how you, through your beloved game, bow and roll inward with your convex shoulders and spine as you implode into mantra and manifestation of your dear friend and mentor's words, «Be the ball».

Reif suggests that you lie on the side that is more convex as you relax.

At night, try sleeping on the side that is convex, just as you did in savasana, with some light support — like a pillow — under the convexity, or sleep on your back, if that is comfortable for you.

So, if the spine curves to the right, the right ribs will bulge backward, creating a convex shape as the left ribs push forward, creating a hollow, concave area.

Since the appearance of the X Coupe concept car at the Detroit auto show in 2001, the design of BMW's road cars has been heavily dictated by what its former design boss, Chris Bangle, liked to describe as flame surfacing — a combination of convex and concave forms within the body surfacing conceived to lighten the visual effect of the sheet metal.

In addition, Crew Cab PRO-4X includes available tow mirrors (manually extending and folding, with puddle lamps), convex spotter mirror, Trailer Brake Controller, proximity activation for the puddle lamps, LED signature headlamps and cargo lamp and Trailer Light Check function (included on the key fob) as part of the PRO-4X Utility Package.

Front visibility is quite strong, the rear view mirrors are big and have convex and concave markings as well.

BMW's typical design language with convex and concave surfaces as well as flowing transitions from the front and side to the rear gave the fifth edition of the BMW 5 Series a particularly characteristic note, the interior with its clear - cut functions highlighting above all the iDrive control system featured as standard.

This illuminated fingerprint is particularly interesting for the new Scirocco when the new bi-xenon headlights are fitted: the engineers and designers have integrated a narrow, convex LED contour underneath the xenon module which looks like an eyelid and functions as daytime running lights.

Going back to those headlights, a closer look shows narrow, convex LED contour underneath the xenon module, functioning as daytime running lights and creating a sense of class and refined function.

As we said four years ago (Too quirky: 5 reasons why Honda's car tech will scare away tech - savvy buyers), LaneWatch was technically excellent, but required more driver involvement; you had to keep glancing down at the side view in the center stack LCD, and there was nothing on the driver side except a convex mirror.

The rear of the device is striking — at least so far as the backs of e-readers go, with slightly tapered sides that create a subtly convex surface covered in a textured soft - touch material.

It operates as a watch when in a convex state, becomes a PDA when flat, and can be used as a phone when turned concave.

As interest rates change, however, a bond's price is unlikely to change linearly, and instead would change over some curved, or «convex» function of interest rates.

Option free bonds have positive convexity; bonds with embedded options, such as callable bonds and mortgage - backed securities, have negative convexity, meaning the graph of the relationship between their price and yield is convex rather than concave.

This is known as a «highly convex yield curve».

Some of the work our team as been up to includes; Finishing the transformation of Blaster to a green run — easing the entrance by taking out the convex roll and widening

His work actively engages the viewer in an ongoing search for resolution as one attempts to reconcile the ongoing tension present among all aspects of his compositions: the colors, the ambiguous roles of the mallets, the concave / convex push and pull of the space; he very purposefully uses texture to give materiality to a surface, thereby adding more layers to the mystery, not illuminating it.

Painting has been invoking the science of vision and the truth in painting for ages, whether with the convex mirror, planar mirrors as lens, the camera obscura, Post-Impressionist points of light, or color charts before Donald Batchelor.

Immense PVC skins, stretched or deflated; concave or convex mirrors whose reflections attract and swallow the viewer; recesses carved in stone and pigmented so as to disappear: these voids and protrusions summon up deep - felt metaphysical polarities of presence and absence, concealment and revelation.

Woelffer's paintings from this period began using invented symbolism, motifs such as handprints, flag - like stripes, and a shape he called a «mirror» — two convex curves reflecting across a central axis.

There were some interesting lots; an unusual, ceramic Concetto Spaziale by Fontana; a terrifying, psychedelic Anish Kapoor convex mirror, which looked for all the world as though it had been nicked from Jeff Koons's «Celebration» series; an outsized Warhol Dollar Sign from 1982, which I ended up sitting next to at lunch.

Up close, the images resolve as portraits in a convex mirror, snippets of studio setups reflected in the flank of a polished teakettle.

The resulting compositions, which mingle 21st - century digital technology with traditional labor - intensive hand work, are legible as recognizable images only at a distance or in the stainless steel convex mirrors installed in the exhibition.

As you get closer, they become less graspable and at the same time begin to generate the illusion of being convex.

Painting on linen or canvas stretched across bespoke curved wooden frames (which Gorchov calls saddle - stretchers), the concave and convex structures have often been described as a hybrid between painting and sculpture.

For the diptych Trails, previously exhibited earlier this year in her inaugural solo exhibition at Whitespace, Dowda inserts a circular piece of convex black glass known as a Claude glass (or, more simply, a black mirror) between two large prints showing shadowy landscapes.

When arranged together, they form an impressive 30 - sided geometric shape known as a rhombic triacontahedron (a convex polyhedron with 30 rhombic faces).

century landscape artists to the blackened, slightly convex pocket mirrors used to reduce tonal values and which served as a form of camera obscura when looking at the view behind one's head.

The result is a polymorphism of concave and convex appearance variations permitted by a delicate play of shadow and light as well as the use of an extremely limited colour palette.

This latest series of paintings represents a continuum of Evans» earlier works, pushing the limitations of seductive texture and brilliant color, as well as dissection and re-assemblage of the geometric form, an ongoing exploration of concave colliding with convex, shadow colliding with light.

With the circle serving as a starting point in many of his works, it evolves to become a circular hole in the convex aluminium surface, adding another spatial dimension to his work.

Moses also works with convex canvases, which utilize an outward curve, causing his pearlescent colors to shift and change as different amounts of light hit the surface at any given point.

The Donuts, as the generic title implies, are asymmetric convex ovals with holes, «sprayed in delicious coatings of silvery hues.»

For example, convex land isn't too bad, because as the water goes up, the perimeter needing to protection shrinks...

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This insight avoids the HORRIBLE mistake to apply the (usual) SB law to a non convex cavity as a whole.

As with the K380, the top and bottom rows have convex key tops, though the effect is subtler on the Easy - Switch keyboards.

Just pop in the lens as shown below, with the convex part of the lens inwards and install the Jaunt VR app.

It feels great to hold; the phone is 9.9 mm thick directly in the center, but as thin as just 3.8 mm in certain areas thanks to the convex design.

I am curious about the beautiful convex mirror above the mantel — was that something you purchased as is or did you refinish it?

We can also silver shaped glass objects such as bowls, bottles & convex glass.