The Polaris interface for the exploration of multidimensional databases extends the popular Pivot Table interface to generate a rich, expressive set of graphic displays.
We analyze the performance of dense and replicate sampling by developing a theoretical framework that focuses on a restricted yet expressive set of possible curves over a wide range of noise levels and by analyzing real expression data.
The method offers a fast, automated and controllable way to explore an expressive set of symmetrical, complex and colored objects, which makes it a useful tool for design exploration and prototyping.
A master of studio lighting and expressive set design, Dieterle creates some memorably intricate spaces to contain this otherwise overly familiar material, which finds Charlton Heston (in his Hollywood film debut) as a gambler who cheats a chump (Don DeFore) out of $5,000, only to have the poor sap commit suicide on him.
The movie tinkers a bit with the story in order to favor the director's own visions; Goethe's wide-ranging imagination sets in motion a teeming world, whereas Murnau suggests medieval villages with expressive set design (narrow alleys, steep stairways, sharply sloping roofs, and slashing shadows).
But, although "Thou Shalt Not" has many incidental surface pleasures — including Thomas Lynch's expressive sets, Debra Monk on drums, a persuasive Mardi Gras number, and a chilling rowboat scene in which Camille, who cannot swim, is deep-sixed by Therese and Laurent — dance seems inadequate to the brooding psychology of Zola's lovers, whose needs are not so much dramatized as announced.
Farnsworth was in particularly relaxed and lyrical vein in Finzi's Earth and Air and Rain, with pianist James Baillieu's expressive playing setting the seal on their interpretation.
The Pixar folks have a gift for giving their car-characters emotional appeal by virtue of extremely expressive eyes set in the windshield.
Other currents were swirling around the more educated bits of the US counterculture, among them the expressive precedents set by the Beats and the possibilities suggested by New Journalism.
The same theatre also scored with Spoon River, an expressive musical setting of Edgar Lee Masters's 100-year-old Spoon River Anthology, which earned Soulpepper artistic director Albert Schultz a prize for best director of a musical for his eerie, immersive production.
Composers such as Josquin increasingly appreciated the expressive possibilities inherent in setting motet texts, and consequently the number and variety of motets (in this era, settings of religious texts) expanded dramatically.
