Gone is the previous lush, Gothic witchcraft, laced-around-a-riddle imagery, and instead we have an aggressive nipping dog, against a sparse, speckled background, deliberately designed to be offputting, while warning everyone not to expect what they thought they were expecting.
Musically, the track's sparse background is honed with the use of synths, minor chords, and a "booming" drum beat.
Oversampling sparse background clusters before splitting enhances the detection of very small subpopulations.
The charmingly sparse backgrounds, line-drawn in colored pencil, are a departure from Juan's earlier work, and they reinforce the vibrancy and three-dimensionality of the splendid menagerie.
While "something appeared to be missing from a lot of his Atlas work: enthusiasm," Williamson's Atlas Westerns, at least, "form a strongly consistent body of work, characterized by minimal to nonexistent action, a preponderance of closeups and reaction shots, and well-defined figures set against sparse backgrounds".
If your aquarium is looking a little sparse, a background printed with plants or coral reefs can give the impression of a much lusher environment.
Feedback features West finally doing what the rest of the world has been doing for the last few years and wondering aloud whether he's actually gone round the twist: in the background, a sparse loop, apparently made from the titular noise, thrillingly spins out of tune, then starts to cut out, supplanted by sudden bursts of atonal screeching.
However, by assessing a sparse target scene, the homogeneous background influences the SSIM.
Since we assume that the field to be imaged has a sparse structure (strong scatterers on a background of weak reflectivities), range lines, having much higher reflectivity values than the others, are likely to contain strong scatterers (belonging to moving and/or stationary objects).
