They found that when an object blocked part of the hidden scene, their algorithms could use the combination of light and shade at different points on the wall to reconstruct what lay round the corner.
They are much the same in outline and were garnished according to the means of the family: lemons, prunes, raisins, currants and the fashionable barberries for the rich, whilst, in one disparaging remark, others are dismissed as "have not... enough [prunes] to lay round their plum porridge at Christmas".
She'd blamed Roy for reading war books and leaving them lying round the house.
Rural places tend to have a lot of lumber lying round, and 'dowel rod' has always struck me as kind of humorous".
Science may never tell us what lies round the next corner, but researchers have come up with the nearest thing: a computer program that turns a normal digital camera into a periscope.
Once the initial post-exam euphoria has waned, parents typically urge their children to take up temporary employment, either to build up some funds or to reduce the number of mugs lying round the house.
Sadly slower off the mark than Coleridge, I read a volume of Raymond Chandler's short stories, Trouble is My Business, when I was 17. Someone left it lying round the house.
The solitary atheist breaks through to identification with the masses of past worshippers ("so many dead lie round"), much as, in the later, even more epiphanic "The Whitsun Weddings," the bachelor poet eventually, along with the holy-day newlyweds who have boarded his London-bound train, partakes of "all the power / That being changed can give".
Among his friends at grammar school he developed eclectic tastes that included a school skiffle band and "a lot of lying round with, as my aunt put it, 'our arses above us', listening to things like Tchaikovsky symphonies or New Orleans jazz".
But, this being January, you might even have a few of those lying round post Christmas should you want to want to skip this main recipe and head straight instead for one of the others... How long you bake your amaretti will determine their finished texture – either crisp throughout or soft and squidgy in the middle.
But it was prompted by an appeal he had seen from the Historical Churches Preservation Trust, and honours the church as a "serious house on serious earth" that exerts a powerful draw even on the unbelieving, "if only that so many dead lie round".
