There are one or two successful jokes, and a continuous, surface level of plausible narrative activity.
You can rotate all seven to yield one continuous surface or mix them up.
"The idea of a fluid continuous surface — this idea has been around since Antoni Gaudí," Ruiz-Geli says.
It has a soft, continuous surface, but has raised keys like a piano, so it's more approachable.
Mr. Jungen placed 200 such tables edge to edge to form a continuous surface, adjusting the arrangement to incorporate a row of columns that bisects the gallery's interior.
When individual screens drop into place, the set becomes a continuous surface, like some supersize flat-screen television, on which enormous images can be projected.
Designing a building where the roof meets the floor in one continuous surface means you see things that would otherwise be hidden – the unfortunate result here being an edge of crumpled fabric, stuffed unceremoniously behind the gutter.
In "Blindspot," Mr. Serra introduces sharp angles into his elephantine elliptical spirals, so that one walks into the piece around a series of corners rather than along a continuous surface, and this is much more disorienting.
The entire thing is clad in a continuous surface of slender aluminium mullions from top to bottom, which shimmer like silvery corduroy, recalling New York skyscrapers of the 1960s.
In textiles and paper production, sizing is applied so as to form a solid, continuous surface film, imparting such characteristics as smoothness, stiffness, weight, and lustre.
The first characteristic of offset printing is that the printing and the nonprinting elements are parts of a single continuous surface.
