This mix was a modernizing aspect of the collection that introduced into the grove of trees not only predictable, if beautiful, prints of flowers but also elements of plastic.
The four-dimension (4D) is created by the predictable change in 3D printed part configuration over time as the result of shape-memory functionality.
Many students adapted to the overhaul more easily than their teachers, some of whom resented having beloved tools — scripted lectures, printed textbooks and a predictable flow through the curriculum — vanish.
There's an initial large investment, and then once you have the printing press running, it's very predictable.
Old News Corp shareholders forced newspaper lover Rupert Murdoch to create a separate unit for print media because they wanted more predictable, and higher, income from their shares.
But then he moved away from his safe, predictable place and sent out some terrific ethnic prints and patterns, in muddy shades of green, burgundy and brown, some with a sparkle of embroidery.
(Mr. Franzen took a predictable beating online after portions of this book were printed in The Guardian under the miserablist headline, "What's Wrong With the Modern World").
There are some exciting departures: a small gallery comparing the satiric, death-haunted prints of James Ensor and Jose Guadalupe Posada, a ravishing if more predictable homage to French landscape and a persistent attention to photography.
Unlike 3D printing, 4D printing is time-dependent, printer-independent, predictable, and targets shape/property/functionality evolution.
Clarke rarely says anything uninteresting or predictable and he is unlikely to break that habit in print.
