Sentence examples for recurring shapes from inspiring English sources

But the honeycomb has endured as one of the most frequently recurring shapes.

"The pattern can be seen as a fractal — a self-similar structure". Fractal patterns are the recurring shapes seen in snowflakes, the leaves of a fern, and "even the coastline of Britain," Hennig said.

His imagination was geometric in the sense that he thought that a small vocabulary of recurring shapes was produced whenever an impetus — the force that drives water forward in a deluge, that drives the arrow from the crossbow — was deflected by the natural fields of air and earth and water.

Mr. Corenblith started by poring over the complete Dr. Seuss, including his fine-art illustrations for adults, uncovering in the process a sort of lexicon of recurring shapes that were distinctly Seussian -- the stair arch, the squiggly turret, the telescoping onion dome.

But the roof, its metal arc slicing into the sky, is all 21st century -- and a recurring shape in the work of Moshe Safdie, the museum's architect.

She also liked to use and re-use certain forms - a glass and silver decanter in the form of a lyre, which reappears as cows' horns; a recurring shape that is ambivalently a boomerang or a wing.

One holds aloft a kind of pediment containing metal cogs, another brandishes a small red house (a recurring shape in the sculptor's work), and the third stands swathed in painted wire mesh, its head surrounded by scrolls of paper dabbed with black and red letters.

His malevolent spirit is a recurring catalyst, shaping the action out of spite and restlessness while Polly does her best to protect her son -- and any others she comes in contact with.

I was interested in seeing what could be seen, especially recurring decorative motifs, shapes and techniques.

Stronger forms of the liquid promote the visual apprehension of irregular shapes, recurring and colourful geometric patterns, distorted and fleeting images, and out-of-body experiences or dream-like visions populated by the familiar and the fanciful.

Indeed, starting from the analysis of the peculiar features of the landscape and of the examined buildings, it's possible to recognize some recurring structures and shapes which identify as many rural architectural types, with similar structural behavior and seismic damage.