At the University of Victoria in British Columbia, engineering students charged with the problem of deterring garden pests came up with the Garden Gnome Drone, a small but noisy machine that rises off its landing pad when infrared sensors detect an intruder, then flies a quick pattern around the garden before settling back down in its place.
You can make a simple, quick pattern for your shorts by tracing the outline of a pair of shorts that fit well on a piece of craft paper.
The typical response of starling groups is to take flight, with a common sight being undulating flocks of starling flying high in quick and agile patterns.
The musicians then shifted to the section known as "merengue" (not to be confused with the merengue of the Dominican Republic, discussed below), for which couples assumed closed ballroom position and danced a stately four-beat, slow-quick-quick pattern until the end of the music.
Mr. DeJohnette tapped quick cymbal patterns and made sustained piano notes breathe with hushed cymbal-roll crescendos.
Dissonant chords welled up, sometimes throbbing with phantom tones produced by nuances of tuning; quick, tootling patterns appeared, then melted into the clangor.
Yet the music behind him was a triumphal, broad-shouldered march as he picked quick, circular patterns on his electric guitar and later worked up a fierce tremolo strum that could have come from the Who.
Affection is different from the high-spirited excitement of Hong-Kong-born Melissa Hui's "Common Ground," the concert's punchy, pulse-driven overture, moving from accelerations on cymbals through diverse, quick little patterns to end with a spray of glitter at the top of the piano.
If the Patriots' cornerbacks try to muscle the smallish Rams receivers, Martz might put either Bruce or Torry Holt in motion to free them from the bump at the line of scrimmage; the fact that they are running as the ball is snapped makes them dangerous on quick slant patterns because they have the speed to zip through the defense after making the catch.
With 30 seconds left, he found Reche Caldwell on a quick slant pattern that appeared to be a 5-yard touchdown.
