The green is offset by the dramatic ornamentation of the furniture, drawn, apparently haphazardly, from different periods: an 18th-century French lacquered Ormolu desk; a wall stand that looks like a convergence of two Gaudí tendrils; a 60s glass chandelier; a replica of aesthetic realist Gerrit Thomas Rietveld's zigzag chair and a pair of s-shaped constructivist tables by Terence Conran.
But "cyberpunk" as a genre, and in the case of Netflix's Altered Carbon, shouldn't feel like a convergence of past ideas when its whole identity is wrapped in the future.
If we would like a faster convergence, we need to prescribe higher orders of f (not only the cubic term).
Instead, it has divided into contagion theory (whereby crowds cause people to act in a certain way), convergence theory (where crowds amount to a convergence of already like-minded individuals) and emergent norm theory (where crowd behaviour reflects the desires of participants, but it is also guided by norms that emerge as the situation unfolds).
The gravel garden, in these circumstances, seems a godsend, but it really came about, like many good ideas, from a convergence of events.
But an independent and even a liberal spirit seethes in his art, which took form, like that of Velázquez, amid a convergence of innovations from Italy and from Spanish-ruled Flanders.
But the rise of businesses like Vicino's points to a convergence of social and political trends that has become a toxic brew of inequality, paranoia, and extreme individualism.
"I do feel like this is a convergence of a lot of years of doing this," he said, and then his voice went quiet.
"It seems like a perfect convergence of a bad housing market meeting a bad economy and more awareness about global warming," claims Jay Shafer, an enthusiastic advocate.
When Wynton Marsalis appeared at a Barbican tribute concert to the late Sir John Dankworth in June, it felt like a symbolic convergence of creative forces – those of jazz's American homeland, and of its many and varied descendants in Europe.
It seems like a natural convergence: Iranians know well the scourge of poison gas because they were the victims of Iraq's chemical weapons use during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
