Concept cars -- preliminary models of possible future vehicles -- have grown more important over the last decade or so as manufacturers test new ideas and try to build enthusiasm for upcoming models among the public.
Wax sculpture, the preparation of finished figures in beeswax by modelling or molding or the use of such figures as a form for casting metal or creating preliminary models.
For each character – and this film has a lot – there must be sketches, revisions, preliminary models, armatures, adjustments, costumes, replacement costumes (they wear out fast), and entire racks of subtly varied features and limbs, which the animators need to model every quirk of speech and gesture.
The Queens Museum of Art, for example, only just selected an architect, Eric Owen Moss of Los Angeles, to design an expansion that would double its space; preliminary models have been on view at the Architectural League of New York in Manhattan.
A small explanatory section of the show is devoted to Mr. Mueck's exhaustive working process, which includes making preliminary models, then making fiberglass and silicone molds from them; painting surface details like veins and wrinkles; and drilling or punching thousands of tiny individual pores in the plastic skin for tiny hairs.
In fact, preliminary models for coupling these technologies, and the resultant benefits, are already emerging.
The preliminary models were built and refined with the Phenix program.
In this study, preliminary models for first-order rate constants for BOD and COD removal from leachate were developed.
Preliminary models, often made of polymer foam, plaster, wood or clay, capture the form of the product.
Preliminary models were fitted with random variables included also in the regression coefficients of predictors, but the improvements due to these additional parameters were marginal.
Results are compared to preliminary models incorporating various possible rate-limiting phenomena, including solid-state diffusion and oxygen exchange at the gas/solid interface.
