Sentences with phrase «familiar kind of space»

A manifold is just a space, with each point immediately around you looking like Euclidean space — the familiar kind of space that we see around us.

Not exact matches

The Church can not be «a different kind of economic space» when most Christians are suffering from visual agnosia, an inability to recognize familiar objects.

Unlike more familiar kinds of waves, these gravitational ripples don't travel «through» space; they are vibrations of spacetime itself, propagating outward in all directions at the speed of light.

For those perhaps not familiar with the jargon of the Martian astronaut community, crew selection protocols are what you use before a trip to Mars to determine what kind of person is going to make a staunch and reliable crew member, as opposed to the kind liable to — as we say in astropsychology — fall victim to Space Madness, sell his soul to the onboard master computer, disembowel his crewmates somewhere deep in the black, unaccountable void, eventually landing on Mars only to scamper briefly across its surface, forgetting his helmet in a self - made diaper of hydraulic cabling, and finally collapsing with a mouthful of red dirt, advancing human understanding of the Red Planet millimetrically, if at all.

Sitting around our custom designed pub bar the space feels familiar, like your local, «where everybody knows your name» kind of pub.

Laura's particular use of materials emerges from a compulsive desire to work them into a formed space of some kind, using a language that seems strangely familiar to the natural world.

The influence of scientific theory is present in familiar grids and patterns upon which the images are built, and yet they possess a spontaneity and fluid movement in space that breaks away from any kind of rigid underpinning.

Today, through my anamorphic works I redesign the volumes of any kind of surface involved, thus causing with my paintings a temporary interruption of normality by altering the perception of familiar contexts, and so raising a different understanding of spaces and, consequently, of reality as a whole.»

Manfred Pernice (re) assembles these «familiar» materials, which thus lose all of their functionality, in what he describes as a kind of «canning» of objects and space.

«Sometimes my paintings evoke really familiar still - life objects, kinds of spaces or even just abstract forms that have a familiar sense of weight or volume.

The nice thing was that everyone we worked with also was really familiar with the firm, because they work in the same space as us, and they see kind of what our clients like, and they're pretty personal friends, many of them.