Further, the use of a black plate aids in maintaining sharpness of picture detail.
The measuring instrument, a radiometer, is simple, a black plate under a glass dome.
Like asphalt in summer, the black plate turns hot as it absorbs the sun's energy.
The pouches themselves were made from a transparent gelatin, giving the ravioli an almost embryonic or extraterrestrial cast whose visual impact would be lost without a black plate.
This he very handsomely serves on a black plate beside a pool of silken aioli made with liquid from the barnacles.
A starter of cured and slow-cooked mackerel came with shiitake and enoki mushrooms, a blob of mild wasabi and mizuna on a black plate, and looked gorgeous.
The colourplates and the black plate must all be printed in register; i.e., they must be superimposed so that identical portions of the image in each plate colour overprint each other.
Consequently, it is common practice to use the black plate to supplement the colourplates, portions of which are allowed to print in all except pure white areas of an illustration.
The black plate is used to provide added uniformity of colour reproduction, since it will overcome changes in hue of critical neutral tones that could occur with random or cyclic variations in the amount of ink being transferred to the plate from the press inking system.
The green paste went onto a black plate with strands of cucumber and myoga ginger bulbs and softly folded lengths of sashimi: geoduck, amazingly sweet and nearly orange; a slab of tuna belly run through with fatty streaks that melted moments after touching the tongue; a glittering bit of sardine; and chewy squares of engawa, the powerful muscle that sends a fluke undulating along the ocean floor.
Down the other side of the table guests ate an identical dessert from a black plate.
