First come the austere peaks: "Wanda Lake, Near Muir Pass" (1934), a picture of a perfect mountain reflection; "Mount Whitney From the West, Sierra Nevada" (1932), a picture of a jagged, rocky peak with the blurry shadow of a neighboring peak sneaking up its face; and "In Gold Canyon" (circa 1946), a fleshy-looking gray mass rising out of the blackness of Death Valley.
It's a blurry shadow that won't come into focus.
Jarringly aggressive, by contrast, is Xavier Veilhan's "Naked Men," a big ovenlike grid of hot light bulbs programmed to produce almost indecipherably blurry shadows of advancing men.
The blurry shadows at the perimeter of the frames and the jerky movments of the actors (who are dancers from the Winnipeg Royal Ballet Company) uncannily simulate the look of the very oldest movies, and the head-tossing, throat-baring displays of lust and dread are at once parodic and grandly, operatically earnest.
The lightmap scale essentially determines how sharp or blurry shadows are rendered on geometry.
This process began in the late 1920's when he pulverized both his process and his influences into flat blurry forms that turned the traditional subjects of still lifes and nudes into lovely shadows of their former selves.
The acceleration of (x − μ) with the cubic value enhances the edges around the object present in a scene; the summation and normalization make the edges of shadows blurry since they are soft and fasten the process of shadow detection.
Lucas's aura may be almost palpable, but his prana — the Sanskrit word for life force — is oddly blurry behind the looming shadow of his myth.
The photographic tonalities of the process could not only reproduce lines but also capture the "broader patchwork and blurry movements of light and shadow in the forest," according to the catalogue essay by Malcolm Daniel, assistant curator in the Met's department of photographs.
In blurry slashes of hot color and dark shadow, Cobain is shown ricocheting around, on- and offstage, destroying guitars and speakers, flinging himself into the audience and, in one instance, being pursued by a violent fan.
This may not be difficult, since the Wolf is drawn as mere shadow, with a brown blurry silhouette that stands in sharp contrast to Louis's bright blue outlines.
