This two-button blazer and wool-crepe trouser has a light, fluid shape, ideal for warm days, and the straight-leg trouser hits just above the hip.
A floppy hat, as seen often on Vanessa Hudgens, will do the trick--giving a smoother, more fluid shape to a boxy face.
Over time the Zumthor plan has evolved substantially; what had been a fluid, biomorphic shape (with echoes of artist Jean Arp and architect Oscar Niemeyer) that cantilevered over the edge of the La Brea Tar Pits is now a somewhat harder-edged, anvil-like shape.
Studies of nature -- say, the tip of a flower stamen -- inspired the screen's fluid shape.
How this forces the characters to reconsider their own identities and relationships is what gives "Burn This" its compellingly fluid shape.
Its striking fluid shape was designed to combine the outlines of three iconic chairs, but it's now become something of an icon itself.
Such cellular automata are at the heart of this book, for Mr. Wolfram argues that many complex processes -- the movements of a fluid, the shapes of leaves, the patterns on a mollusk shell -- can, in fact, be modeled by simple programs like cellular automata.
As the soloist creates fluid shapes, an infrared camera captures her movements and communicates them to a computer, which produces a graphic response that is then projected onto the dancer, generating striking effects: an aura, a constellation, and even something like an aurora borealis.
Ms. Missoni has taken something of a risk with her abstract camouflage patterns, patch-pocket cotton skirts and long fluid shapes redolent of a hippie beach wedding.
They were more than a welcome counterpoint to the typical fluid shapes, like blanket coats, asymmetrical wrap skirts and flowing long-sleeved gowns, also included in the show.
