Yet with this bold radicalism there is a serious intellectual reach and a complexity that makes you think of late Cézanne, of Picasso and Braque.
He hates undersize oysters, for example, condemning them as "a few tablespoons of membranous seawater" that have not been allowed to reach full sweetness and complexity.
California gewurztraminers have yet to reach the intensity and complexity of the Alsatian variety, but this one from Anderson Valley in Mendocino County comes close.
Real-time graphics hardware is reaching the speed and complexity boundary where real-time procedural shading is possible.
The Newhouses have never been big on synergy -- their various divisions have been uncooperative by design -- but the company reached a size and complexity in which the cost and revenue benefits of acting in concert could no longer be ignored.
The scope of military signaling increased enormously and reached such a size and complexity that, when World War I ended, military telecommunication engineers became a separate corps in all armies.
Networks of irrigation canals reached their greatest extent and complexity during this period: some of the more than 150 miles (240 km) of canals in the Salt River valley were renovated and put back into use in the 20th century.
The common properties among such modern applications of graphs are their massive size and complexity, reaching up to billions of edges and trillions of vertices, resulting in not only tremendous storage requirements but also compute power to conduct their analysis.
This awkward hybrid, the leader/manager, can helm a fledgling creative enterprise only so far along the path of growth, until it reaches a point in size and complexity where leadership and management add up to more than one full-time job.
Businesses have performed market research and other small experiments for years, but the practice has reached new levels of sophistication and complexity, largely because it is so easy to control the user experience on the Web, and then track how people's behavior changes (see "What Facebook Knows").
