The children's books are in Russian, of course, but everyone will enjoy the huge sculptural homage to Pushkin, an eclectic assemblage of allusions to three of his stories: seashells, a curved fish tank, an iridescent plastic foam wave, a snarling giant yellow-feathered rooster and a squirrel made of fabric and tiny twigs that is eating gold-leafed walnuts that contain plastic emeralds.
The new rending system employs WebGL, trading curved fish-eye style images for straight lines on mobile.
Mr. Love, a chef in Fort Worth (and briefly in New York several years ago) has put his name on a hefty spatula with a 4-by-6-inch surface that will not be daunted by a whole flank steak, and a big, sturdy but gracefully curved slotted fish turner, able to lift a striped bass fillet.
Here we show that phylogenetically corrected diversity curves for "fish" (actinopterygians and elasmobranchs) during the last 200 million years fit an equilibrium model in the marine realm and an expansion model in the freshwater realm.
Their findings agree with earlier studies where gillnets show bell-shaped selectivity curves as fish with a certain girth are captured with a higher probability than smaller fish that can slip through or larger fish that don't get far enough through the mesh to get stuck (reviewed by Hamley 1975).
Additionally, to assess whether or not the rate of discovery of a particular type of fauna shows a tendency to decline, thus indicating that we are approaching its full description, we established the number of new species described per year and plotted accumulation curves for fishes, mollusks, and echinoderms.
From the resulting length-at-age back-calculations, we computed the following two-parameter logarithmic growth curve for each fish: where L i (t) is the back-calculated length of each fish at age t, α0 i the back-calculated length at age 1, and α ti the logarithmic growth of each fish.
To measure, we approximate a third order regression curve to the fish body to estimate its length.
This process involves fitting a quadratic curve along each fish's body through what should be a straight line, and then corrects for the arch in the entire data set.
Eyes were shaped like the curve of little fish, eyebrows like an archer's bow, lips like lotus blossoms, chin like an elephant's trunk, female arms tapered like a root.
