It presented an account of the psychological factors which made it possible for us to see a three-dimensional moving subject - such as people in action - on a flat, still surface.
A wisp of a shiver still surfaces when I think of dirty-faced little Tom being struck by Grimes, or a one-eyed fairy-eating villain chasing a little girl.
The vessel shifted, its keel striking the still surface with a sound like a pan slapping a table, before it steadied against the dock.
This collection of prints, most of which were made before World War I and are postcard-size or smaller, does not include some of Lartigue's most famous images, like the self-portrait in which the young photographer's head seems to float like a balloon on the still surface of his bathwater.
Cash envelopes have long been a common tool for bribery in South Korea, where graft scandals involving politicians and businessmen still surface on a regular basis.
In another, the still surface of an ice-blue lake has an almost hyperreal sheen that speaks of the sublime.
The first image in the series – austere tower blocks reflected in the still surface of a lake or wide river, with tiny human figues clustered in groups along the shore – reminded me of similar images by Simon Roberts from his Motherland series and Mark Power from his book of Polish landscapes, The Sound of Two Songs.
The mood has improved since the depths of the Great Recession, but it is notable, he said, that concerns still surface among a "large segment" of the population.
The coupled heave and pitch motions of a simplified non-uniform ship hull floating on a still water surface and subjected to a moving load have been investigated.
The coupled heave and pitch motions of a ship floating on a still water surface and subjected to a moving mass have been investigated.
At the eastern margin of the shield there are remnants of a still older surface, of middle or late Mesozoic age (i.e., formed about 175 to 66 million years ago), which has been warped by subsequent earth movements and now disappears beneath the sediments of the Great Artesian and similar basins.
