A lushly rendered ibex, with an octopus clinging to its back, stands against a pale, distant line of mountains; up close, smirking large-beaked birds, curled-up infants, and human-headed cows sprout from the lines of shading.
The mood brightens in Ms. Craddock's seascapes: pictures of foamy, jade-green waves washing up on sand in the foreground, with the horizon a high, distant line under bands of blue sky.
A radio image of this galaxy shows a bright pair of jets pointing from left to right and a fainter, more distant line of radio emission running approximately from the top to the bottom of the image.
Smoothing includes an outlier detection by fitting a polynomial of degree 5 and removing distant line segments afterwards.
He waved an arm expansively, indicating a distant tree line.
"Master Lien Master Lienn!" came the tiny voice over a distant telephone line, "Please give me directions.
While we never met in person, his charm and enthusiasm were evident even over a distant phone line.
And those sun-addled wretches crawling through the trackless desert wilderness, painfully dragging themselves toward a distant punch line?
They have no running water, no toilet and only a tiny flow of electricity, which is stolen -- leached through a wire spliced to a distant power line.
He's like a front row forward driving forward with the ball, completely incoherently and inelegantly, but with dogged determination, in the direction of a distant try line.
