Sentence examples for collection of tiles from inspiring English sources

Starting with a collection of tiles from a given tiling (which might be a single tile, a tiling of the plane, or any other collection), deflation proceeds with a sequence of steps called generations.

It has a slick appearance that resembles the "Metro" user interface Microsoft first started using with its Windows Phone 7 operating system — a collection of tiles that suck photos, e-mails and other information from the Web and displays them on the Windows 8 home screen.

The default is to get a random collection of tiles covering all categories, with only one correct in the mix but each category can be practiced separately simply by selecting from a drop-down menu.

Using a collection of tiles (bitmap images) that are true or false in any context has proved to be a versatile means of creating chemistry quizzes on various platforms for undergraduate organic chemistry quizzes taught at Drexel university.

"With this acquisition, the Heckscher Museum now has the largest and possibly best collection of tile paintings and original illustrations related to the club anywhere in the country," said Kenneth Wayne, the museum's chief curator of collections and exhibitions.

"Not quite," I told him, pausing on a spot of level ground to look out over the neat collection of tile roofs and gardens that filled the back of a narrow, high-walled bay.

Designed by Los Angeles architects Nima Abili and Sara Shakib, the debut collection of tile-clad, geometric, Brutile furnishings for Nima Abili was inspired by the raw surfaces and repeated modular elements of Brutalist architecture.

Many of the common features of Penrose tilings follow from a hierarchical pentagonal structure given by substitution rules: this is often referred to as inflation and deflation, or composition and decomposition, of tilings or (collections of) tiles.

Other landmarks include the Renaissance-style town hall (1618; around a medieval tower), the Armamentarium (a 17th-century armoury), the Paul Tetar van Elven Museum, and the Huis Lambert van Meerten Museum, with an international collection of earthenware tiles.

The site has "the largest, and most varied, excavated collection of medieval tiles in the North West" and "the greatest variety of individual mosaic shapes found anywhere in Britain".

In the present paper we associate a collection of fractal tiles with shift radix systems.