Quantification of shape variation has proven to be particularly problematic; it has long been recognized that conventional linear measurements (and the indices derived from them), while replicable, summarize aspects of shape very poorly because of the vast amount of contour information that is lost in the process.
Along with India and Indonesia, China is one of a handful of vast, multiethnic nations that follow the contours of fallen empires.
The R-LMC-R system relies upon complex dynamic nonlinear interactions (Figs. 2B C, contour maps) to translate vast environmental luminance changes into voltage responses of limited size and speed.
The assumption that the Wallabies will be the ones feeling the pressure on Saturday – that the All Blacks, with their vast experience and their intimidating aura, will control the emotional contours of the match – did not cut much ice with the Australian, whose own impressively sanguine approach over the last few testing weeks has been very much at odds with his reputation for combustibility.
But The Table of Less Valued Knights is more than a high-concept pitch document, and Phillips attends to the endless small things that make a ovel a novel rather than a script: a rendering of the detailed contours of consciousness, and sense impressions, and inventories, and vast decorative spaces.
There is a ghostly air about the two premier events in the Barbican's English Originals festival, with near-forgotten spirits summoned up in verse and the fascinating contours of ancient black and white faces highlighted on a vast screen above the stage.
While the literature for independent contour detection and fitting of the iris-pupil boundary is vast, a joint approach, in which it is assumed that the pupil has a given geometric shape has been largely overlooked.
A vast new retrospective of Kahn's work has just opened at the extravagantly contoured Vitra Design Museum in the German town of Weil am Rhein.
To the Editor: "Job Losses Hint at Vast Remaking of U.S. Economy" (front page, March 7) paints the picture of an America whose economic contours have been dramatically reshaped as a result of our economic crisis.
A FRIEND who has been traveling to China since the 70's stood with me on a terrace overlooking the yellow-tiled roofs of Beijing's Forbidden City, a vast maze of buildings and courtyards organized to follow the points of the compass and the contours of the land.
