Functionally justified as armatures for two electronic signboards, these elongated forms are emblematic in themselves: symbols of grace under pressure.
Deep-bodied schooling fishes frequently show vertical banding, and elongated forms usually bear horizontal stripes.
This dichotomy may be partially related to different swimming patterns: deep-bodied fishes perform frequent lateral turns; elongated forms show frequent horizontal movement and change of position.
Still, in the last year or so, the most fetching dummies have shrugged off fame for the renewed allure of anonymity, borrowing their features and elongated forms from the stylized look of fashion illustrations.
A lively example is "People in a Hurry" (1914), a beautifully finished drawing that depicts the comically elongated forms of scurrying pedestrians, their bodies made of close crosshatching played off against a ground of fine horizontal lines.
The intensity of El Greco's colours, his oddly elongated forms, that wild, visionary gleam in his eye – all these factors helped to turn him into a precursor of modernity.
Ignaz Günther, the greatest south German sculptor of the 18th century, was trained under Johann Baptist Straub; the elongated forms of Egell's sculpture at Mannheim, however, deeply impressed him, and his development was toward an almost Mannerist grace and refinement.
Representing some 20 years of the artist's work, they come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from short squat objects looking like oversize eggs, nuts or pods, to slim elongated forms that put you in mind of tree trunks or cocoons.
The microcolonies assumed elongated forms, possibly triggered by exerted pressure drag force.
The shape of a watershed is controlled by geological structure, lithology, relief and climate, and varies from narrow elongated forms to circular or semicircular forms.
"What we are reporting," he says, "is a whole population of elongated forms that bear an uncanny resemblance to the proposed nanofossils.
