The "Semiotic Standard For All Commercial Trans-Stellar Utility Lifter And Heavy Element Transport Spacecraft" was developed for the movie "Alien" (1979) by Ron Cobb.
It provided a consistent and systematic symbolic identity for (the "Nostromo") spaceship systems and was featured heavily in the movie, contributing to the immersive nature/tone/atmosphere that set the film apart (visually and otherwise).
These iconic designs can be seen in Cobb's book, "Colorvision" (1981).
The Wikipedia disambiguation page for disambiguation:
Roger Alsing used Genetic Programming to evolve Mona Lisa from scratch, using only 50 semi-transparent polygons.
Some of the progressive evolutions are depicted below:
To dismiss/reset the annoying, less-than-friendly, Google country redirect.
Enter/type: google.com/ncr
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Just the Ninebot One, an electric-powered, portable, self-balancing, unicyle...
robert heinlein (time enough for love)a human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
specialization is for insects.
Alfons Mucha was a Czech Art Nouveau (master) artist that left us a while ago (1939) but not without leaving behind a distictive (and remarkable) body of work.
Below is but one of his unmistakable creations:
Or. The beautiful, intricate, detailed, 3D-like elements from the Islamic/Persian architecture.
A snapshot from the (current) Wikipedia entry:
An architectural ornamentation reminiscent of stalactites, muqarnas developed around the middle of the 10th century in northeastern Iran and almost simultaneously — but seemingly independently — in central North Africa; they take the form of small pointed niches, stacked in tiers which project beyond lower tiers, commonly constructed of brick, stone, stucco, or wood, clad with painted tiles, wood, or plaster, and are typically applied to domes, pendentives, cornices, squinches and the undersides of arches and vaults.
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Muqarnas display radial symmetry based upon N-gonal symmetry. The number of unique tiles possible is derived from N = N/2 - 1. Larger N values result in thinner muquarnas tiles. There are an unlimited number of muqarnas tile sets given the wide variety of tile profile design possibilities. Computer graphics and fabrication today allow the design and production of novel muqarnas compositions not found in the historical record.
A handy article, courtesy of Before & After magazine, for those difficult times when one needs to find just the right color for a particular purpose.
blaise pascali have made this letter longer than usual, because i lack the time to make it short.
