When the door cracks open, I see a vertical slice of a woman's face: young, Asian, attractive.
He pondered whether to begin the dissection with a traditional vertical slice down the height of the brain.
For many gamers, the disparity symbolised a growing problem with games industry marketing: a reliance on "vertical slice" demos to build early hype.
The Yacoubian Building takes a vertical slice through Egyptian society, represented by the inhabitants of a once-splendid apartment block in Cairo's crowded downtown.
Billed as a "vertical slice of a city 10 stories tall and 330 feet long," Simmons embraces the "sponge" concept: five huge gaps in its rectangular shape create "porosity".
The show's days as a vertical slice of the whole industry are long gone; it is there to support Q4 retail sales, and in doing so it steadfastly ignores the mobile, social and casual sectors which represent by far the largest areas of growth and innovation.
New abilities are unlocked steadily over the course of the adventure, adding the capacity for Zael to jump over enemy heads and down-slice as he does so, or run up walls, Neo-like, before landing a vertical slice on an enemy, the impact augmented by gravity.
The renovations began in the late 1990s with what Ms. Rothstein called "careful editing" and "stealthy" enhancements like a vertical slice in a kitchen wall to let more light inside; making the attic habitable; and installing new plumbing, wiring, heating, telephones and broadband service.
Left, whole grain; middle, vertical slice; right, horizontal slices.
The vertical slice analysis revealed more information about the anthraquinone glycoside content at various altitudes.
Figure 5 The individual anthraquinone glycoside content in each vertical slice.
