Others, like the Vietoris Rips complex, are appealing because they can be computed efficiently.
It has tried only one person: Kang Kech Eav, or Duch, the head of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison complex, who is appealing his conviction for crimes against humanity, murder and torture.
Mr. Muhly begins by toying with Minimalism, underpinning the score early on with a simple, rhythmically steady repeating figure that moves from the altos to the brass before disappearing in an increasingly complex web of appealing and often sensual choral and brass counterpoint.
In these complex yet wildly appealing collage-like paintings, Thomas does far more than insert black women into an artistic narrative from which they were, for so long, excluded.
In one especially complex and appealing example, fragments of old Prestype lettering (which itself is waxy and becomes brittle with age) emphasizes the fragile, ephemeral qualities that dominate her work.
While colorful, and often eccentric, her characters are also dynamic and complex -- appealing to our sympathy with their charms and vulnerabilities.
Mike Love is a "jock", more interested in sports and moneymaking than complex chord changes or appealing to critics.
The Bayesian framework is appealing since complex models can be adopted in the analysis both for the image and noise model.
By appealing to complex systems dynamics there is the possibility of physically-based theories that can robustly address phenomena of emergence without having recourse to the type of "vitalism" that was countenanced by some in the earlier part of the twentieth century.
Although appealing, such complex models are computationally intensive, and quick, approximate methods may provide a reasonable alternative.
Brian is up there, and when he was writing this more complex music it would be appealing largely to the small minority on that corner of the continuum.
