Sentence examples for semaphore patterns from inspiring English sources

The crowd grew steadily as four young men in bright white sarongs climbed each elephant and started making semaphore patterns with yak-fur brushes and peacock-feather fans.

The accidental degradation of the magnetic tapes leaves us with frantic juddering and frazzled pixels that look weirdly meaningful – a reduction of the image to an abstract semaphore of geometry and pattern.

Their geometric color patterns make them look like soiled, frayed abstract paintings, but also like semaphore flags, each with a different message.

It's a mysterious mechanism that allows this to happen, a gestural form of communication that has no international semaphore.

For example, she derives seemingly modernist, if peculiarly arranged configurations by simply diagramming the semaphore alphabet (which yields white fields scattered with small squares divided into red and yellow), or by making patterns based on the binary language of digital technology in which different letters are conveyed by signals that are either on or off (yes or not yes).

Electric light signals of the "searchlight" pattern were later introduced at busy stations; these could show the same red/green or yellow/green aspects that semaphore signals showed at night.

semaphore_destroy - Destroy a semaphore.

(Before that, semaphore).

semaphore_signal - Increments the semaphore count.

semaphore_create - Create a new semaphore.

The result is expressed through a semaphore.