It's easier to make a huge fluffy skirt on a flat surface than a curved surface.
DFDiff results for a large 650mm x 450mm sculpture on a curved surface.
"It's made up of many small slats that can form a curved surface," he said.
"If you take liberty with the definition," he said, the result can be a curved surface.
Making the screen seem real on such a curved surface is the most complicated and costly feature, Mr. Nalven said.
Projection, in cartography, systematic representation on a flat surface of features of a curved surface, as that of the Earth.
A three-dimensional manifold is a generalization and abstraction of the notion of a curved surface to three dimensions.
(A manifold, also known as the state space or phase space, is the multidimensional analog of a curved surface).
For one thing, it is not possible to tile a curved surface with hexagons; such a tiled surface is flat.
Clad in plywood "scales," it rolls inward behind a glassy entry zone, like sequins on a curved surface.
Thus, topographic multipliers for a curved surface can be predicted by its mean slope gradient.
