We can see that the relative difference of dissimilarity alters sharply when we remove 40 seams; the value changes from 46 to 192, and the salient object begins to get distorted.
"The re-drawing of the regional boundaries took many of the city's most affluent suburbs into neighbouring local authorities, such as East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire," he said, "and this began to distort the picture".
During the 2-hour experiment, the computer began to distort the playback of the middle vowel sound so that the word the subjects read did not match what they heard themselves saying.
"At first, we see the familiar constellations begin to distort; some become unrecognizable quite quickly," he said.
And your own psychology begins to distort, so you think they have the right to abuse you.
The Fed's holdings of mortgage bonds and Treasuries also are growing so large that it could begin to distort pricing in those markets, and some transactions could be disrupted by a dearth of safe assets.
And like a magnet, mining-related industry is now beginning to distort even seemingly unrelated sectors of the economy, said Bill Evans, chief economist for Westpac, one of Australia's leading banks.
The lure of making a killing in the stock market by establishing links with dot-coms early in their existence is beginning to distort the real estate business, said James Meiskin, the president of Plymouth Partners, a broker who represents tenants.
Your face begins to distort and your cheeks to flap once you hit terminal velocity, about 120mph.
However, the shape of the trap begins to distort for accelerations of −5×106 m/s2 and larger [Fig. 29(c)] with a significant reduction in size for an acceleration of −5×107 m/s2.
