The work is also like a department-store display case, or like "Calder's Circus" (1926-1932), by Alexander Calder, another piece made of miniature objects laid out in a display setting.
If anything, the dreariness creates a kind of intimacy, like a story told on a rainy night next to a campfire, rather than bellowed through a megaphone during a fireworks display set off by lingerie models.
The dots of a given display set were shown as successive brief flashes within a 64×64 LED array, designated as the display board.
The centrepiece of the celebrations saw a quarter of a million people line the banks of the River Thames for a huge display set around the London Eye.
A digital compass, with an electroluminescent display set into the mirror's surface, was added in 1993.
To help promote the new headquarters, the Times held a New Year's Eve event on December 31 , 1903 welcoming the year of 1904 with a fireworks display set off from the roof of the building at midnight.
As the luxury division of the Ford Motor Company, the Lincoln brand began on Monday the process of reintroducing itself to car buyers at an elaborate display set, fittingly enough, in the outdoor plaza of New York's Lincoln Center.
I strolled out on to the plaza beside the Burj al-Khalifa, at 828m the world's tallest building, then stood on a pastiche of the Rialto bridge to watch a synchronised fountain display set to Puccini.
Bath kept their European Champions Cup hopes alive as a dazzling first-half display set up a bonus-point victory away to Pool Four leaders Toulouse.
An estimated quarter of a million people converged on the banks of the River Thames in London to watch a spectacular firework display set to music.
