His own home at Ramsgate of 1844 is his domestic masterpiece: an exemplary model for imitation, entirely free from Georgian tweeness, and full of butch common sense, even rationality in its floor plans, a prototype for thousands of imitations.
Or, to put it another way, Hollywood is to today's digital film culture what theatre was to early cinema: a convenient model for imitation from which the new form inevitably diverges as its own unique strengths became apparent.
The synthesis of shoulder kinematics, either for simulation in a model or imitation in a robot, is a challenging task because of the contact between shoulder blade and ribcage.
Now, the jihadists have innovatively carried out a series of horrific assaults in Mumbai that are not only unmatched in scale and daring since 9/11, but also set up a model for imitation elsewhere.
She recalls her own Beowulf studies with "a huge stack of dictionary and grammar books", and draws attention to Tolkien's comment that "Perhaps the most important function of any translation used by a student is to provide not a model for imitation, but an exercise for correction".
Therefore, our research is a first attempt to understand the relevance of considering empirical social networks as a topological support for the local interactions in the framework of imitation models.
Smaller and more lucid than their model, his imitations of life place no burden upon us; rather, their deftness lightens our step.
Because Babylonian and Assyrian patterns frequently served as the models for imitation throughout the Middle East, sacred documents in Israel may well have been carefully stored in temples and palaces, particularly if they were used in connection with the cult or studied in the priestly or wisdom schools.
So humans become their models for imitation, says Lameira. "Copying human sounds is like doing what your peers are doing".
Alexander JM (2007) presents a number of models involving imitation of neighbors' behavior in games, in which maintenance of diversity requires social network structures other than full communication between all agents.
