Sentences with phrase «very flat planes»

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«The planets are small, they have circular orbits, their orbital planes are flat — it starts to look like home very quickly,» says Jason Rowe of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.

The flat geometry of the plane is a good approximation to the geometry of the sphere when the size of the plane is very small compared to the sphere's radius of curvature.

Ferrari V8's have flat - plane crankshafts, which should already give yours a very distinctive exhaust note that I believe is what you're referring to as «rasp».

Tony Glynn at Ferrari specialist Foskers says the flat - plane - crank V8 gives very few issues provided it's serviced on schedule — which means an oil change every year and belts every three.

There isn't the same aural excitement either, despite the flat - plane crank and the equal length exhaust header pipes, although at very low engine speeds this new V8 does emit a crisp, hollow exhaust note that calls to mind a 458.

The two are very closely related, even down to the MagneRide suspension damper and 5.2 - liter V - 8 with its flat - plane crankshaft, 526 horsepower, and 429 pound - feet of torque.

Dungeon Defenders had enough variety that you could usually work your way around any walls you hit, but that's another issue with levelling: it creates a weird geography of difficulty peaks and troughs to navigate instead of a flat plane, pitched perfectly with a very deliberate and considered flow.

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

The stacked paintings are marked by planes of very flat colour and chequered pattern, the planes are often misaligned, vying against each other to be in front.