Sentences with phrase «sheet of glass»

So they tended to think of the atmosphere overhead as a unit, as if it were a single sheet of glass.
The model tested had the 12.3 - inch cockpit display fitted as an option - the large sheet of glass on the dash.
A large sheet of glass was positioned at an angle between two rooms; a target room visible to audience members and another out of their line of sight.
Rail: It was a large sculpture made with tinted sheets of glass in the courtyard of the Jewish Museum.
Need to angle the light on the surface to see them but it worries me as it's the same sheet of glass covering the camera.
Two - person baths behind sheets of glass instead of a traditional door and a selection of natural products complete the spa - like setting.
The water flow is generally down one side of the glass, but it appears to be on both sides if a clear sheet of glass is used.
In an ideal world, we'd be wrapping up the front of a phone in aluminum too, as opposed to replacing the trusty lightweight metal with a less reliable sheet of glass.
The front is fully taken up by a single sheet of glass, with speaker openings on both ends.
A viewer peers into a room; a near - identical version of this main room lies outside their line of sight and a large sheet of glass is secretly angled between the two.
Larry Bell was a major minimalist sculptor of the»60s specializing in sheets of glass with reflective coatings.
Μade of sheets of glass, which are held to one another at angles and produce the illusion of - scrap, through their many levels of light diffusion that removes the concept of architectural environment, as we know it, since the wall, the shadows and the light create the sensation of swinging.
The simple clarity of these x-ray animal images, in black and white, are then laminated between sheets of glass.
Hyundai says not one body panel or sheet of glass carries over to the redesigned 2015 Sonata sedan.
But incorporating huge sheets of glass into large attractions is problematic, says Ian O'Connell, director of Musion.
This is just a film sandwiched between two thin sheets of glass.
Newton was sufficiently encouraged by this to offer the society another paper on light, which included a description of the way coloured rings of light (now known as Newton's rings) are produced when a lens is separated from a flat sheet of glass by a thin film of air.
A common type of screen technology, found in laptops at the time, resembles a sandwich, with two sheets of glass as the bread — one on top, one on the bottom — and liquid crystals as the sandwich filling.
Placing sheets of glass and mirrors in the composition, and employing skewed perspectives and extreme crops, the images in Heterotopia are suffused with the luminescence of stained - glass windows while possessing the uncanny charm of movie stills or extraterrestrial landscapes.
It rests against a large sheet of glass printed with a semi-transparent misty image through which other elements can be partially seen, including a block of reconfigured rejected works on paper, a magnet made from out - of - circulation shredded bank notes, and a short text on paper.
Reactivation of the Installation from Documenta IX, 1992 Variable dimensions sheets of glass, ventilator, chicken legs, cloth, duvet, pillows, Venetian blinds, carved wood, feathers, rope, test tubes with pigment and tobacco, wall - drawing with pigment Collection of the artist photo: Christine Clinckx, M HKA
Reflecting on a recent business trip to Colombia, the duo recalled their visit to an office that used a simple sheet of glass mounted on poles as a writable surface.
Referring to the 1956 textbook Vacuum Deposition of Thin Films, he purchased a vacuum chamber and coated sheets of glass with laminates and metallic films.
In general, the panel would consist of a firm lower sheet of glass or plastic and a thin, elastic covering of polymers or silicon - based elastomers.
A single sheet of glass traverses the entire instrument panel, allowing three - dimensional sculpting behind it with no fear of dust or fingerprint accumulation.
The entire front of the tablet is a bezel-less sheet of glass and like all tablets reflections and outdoor use can be a problem, but we love the fact that with the display turned off, it's just an inky black surface.
Rather than offering you a precision machined alloy body, or a single sheet of glass at the front, the Archos G9 tablets are designed to be more affordable.
Before biOrb, aquariums were just sheets of glass stuck together with silicone sealer.
A single other work, a freestanding frame holding six parallel sheets of glass and first realized in 2002, pursues a related interest.
Kosuth's Glass Words Material Described (1965) consists of exactly these four words painted on four transparent sheets of glass to undermine art's putative transparency and accessibility.
Printed in layers on an immense sheet of glass, the piece was installed as part of the Woodward's building in East Vancouver.
The mirrored portion of Eliasson's sheet of glass multiplies its immediate surroundings and the tangled green aura beyond the windows; then, as the mirroring gives way to an expanse of transparent glass, it reveals the entrance hall behind, seen across an internal courtyard in a confusion of reflection and refraction.
Several of Burden's other performance pieces were considered somewhat controversial at the time: another «danger piece» was Doomed (1975), in which Burden lay motionless in a gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago under a 5 ft × 8 ft (1.5 m × 2.4 m) slanted sheet of glass near a running wall clock.
Untitled (Dream), 2012, Inkjet print, 100 x 150 cm; Two glass sheets, 110 x160 cm (thickness: 4 mm and 6 mm); Wooden shelf, 5 x 5 x 165 cm; Hand written sentence by the artist on surface of front sheet of glass.
Adding a little spark to the pot, Parker created Explosion Drawings (1999), made with «deconstructed» charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter (components of gun powder), with dots on separate sheets of glass, isolating the elements and implying the uncertainty of potential disaster.
TYO2 is composed of twelve sheets of glass bound together by hand.
Typically, her works are composed of irregular beams and poles that form approximations of overlapping rectilinear structures, often with sheets of glass intercepting the open spaces left between the metal and wood.
They illuminate the sculptures with human figures that interact with Oursler's miniature worlds; they wriggle across sheets of glass, bounce from corner to corner, and crawl over the surfaces of crudely shaped clay, eery distortions moving across the uneven surface.
Suspended inside the cone, broken bits of weathered furniture appear to be both stuck in the trap while also intrinsically a part of its structure Nearby, a 30 - foot long wooden boat held up by large sheets of glass references glass - bottomed tourist boats, but also creates a mirage of the boat floating in the middle of the space.
For her current exhibition High Street at the Zabludowicz Collection, Scott has produced a major new installation, centred around large sheets of glass densely encrusted on their reverse with multiple objects.
In Doomed (1975), in Chicago, he laid under a large sheet of glass leaning up against a wall and stayed there for 45 hours and 10 minutes, shattering the glass after a museum worker placed a pitcher of water next to him — as per the rules of the performance, which was to go on until the staff interfered.
Cassandria Blackmore reverse - paints on sheets of glass where she signs her name backwards.
A huge rectangle of blue yarn, nailed invisibly to the concrete floor at an angle to its insertion in the wall, becomes a vast and flawless sheet of glass, leaning gently, worryingly.
With the choice of cladding material (sheets of glass rhythmically alternated with reflective panels) and a grass roof, it imitates the Irish countryside and only reveals itself at night with the lights shining from inside.
Decker Yeadon, who we've showcased previously, believe such a concept has particular application in contemporary office architecture that has become increasing more transparent, clad in vast sheets of glass.
The slightly contoured sheets of glass covering the front and back melt seamlessly into the stainless - steel frame that runs around the outside of the phone.
The result will supposedly appear seamless, bringing Apple closer than ever to realizing Jony Ive's dream of an iPhone made of one continuous sheet of glass.
The glass back still looks great, with a multiple layer backing that has a very light pearlescent sheen below the top sheet of glass.

Phrases with «sheet of glass»

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