It's battle royale: There's no question about who Treyarch is imitating with this new mode.
Their personal, immersive style was imitated, with varying degrees of success, in practically every newspaper feature section in the country.
Half of the images were imitated with the use of a mirror and half were imitated without the use of a mirror.
In a sense it was prophetic, for, as the 19th-century English painter John Constable rightly remarked, "Hogarth has no school, nor has he ever been imitated with tolerable success".
Barely seven years old, it has some 40 franchises in Asia.And like all good ideas, it has already been imitated, with some 30 copycat chains in Japan and a failed one in South Korea called Beard Uncle.
We have also avoided R-specific extensions as a server or web-based application, so the model can be imitated with other computational engines (e.g., code written in C).
We show that the method can be used to examine song development, the accuracy with which rhythm is imitated, and the variability of rhythms across different renditions of a song.
"He is imitating a quarrel with Russia until the West demands serious changes from his regime, at which point, he will, of course, surrender," said Parliament member Konstantin F. Zatulin, a standard-bearer for Russia's ambitions in former Soviet space.
Another awardee is imitating human skin with thermoplastic elastomers, a plastic he's been researching for the past 25 years.
But if the cement mixers start rolling again, there might be another breakneck building boom like there was in the mid-1960s and, on last week's evidence, that's something to be imitated only with humility and caution.
