Inside, the visitors' room was cinder block, with high ceilings; spherical cameras bulged like popped-out cartoon eyes in the corners of the room.
It seats about 2,500 patrons and features a broad orchestra level, five balcony rings, a mechanically lifting stage, an elegant spherical chandelier in a gold-panelled ceiling, and an ample lobby area displaying modernist artwork.
where ceil denotes the ceiling function.
At opposite sides of the gallery two spherical sculptures by John Miller hang from the ceiling, one covered with excremental-brown paint and tiny plastic figures, the other with daisies — creating a conversation across the room.
A Times reporter took note of the riotous applause that greeted a sequence in which giant ball bearings appeared to fall from the ceiling of the basilica, reflecting "the whole scene with spherical distortion as they bounced down the length of the cathedral".
A single spherical camera array no bigger than a basketball hanging from a ceiling can survey an entire airport terminal with enough detail to track someone with face-recognition software, or if mounted on a drone, can record individual vehicles' movements within a small town.
A ceiling-mounted webcam posts images, including work labeled "A spherical loaf of bread," "Taylor expansions," and "Ants along a hoop," to a publically accessible website he calls his "Academic Pensieve," after the magical memory-holding device from the Harry Potter series.
Surrounding the GimBall's drone core is a spherical cage which serves three purposes: letting it roll along the wall or ceiling, keeping the device's propellers away from your skin, and absorbing shock to keep the device in the air.
And the spherical glass lights jut out horizontally from behind the bar, rather than hanging from the ceiling.
Normally, this is spherical.
