Sentence examples for visual unit from inspiring English sources

The rhabdom lies beneath the cornea and occurs in the central part of each ommatidium (visual unit) of compound eyes.

The most striking exterior feature of the new architectural model is a billowing, wavelike wall of translucent glass meant to unify the Rue de Rivoli side both by referring to the original verrière roof and by creating a single visual unit that pulls the façades together.

Ms. Rovner's basic visual unit is by now a nearly universal sign for human suffering and alienation: a blurred and grainy photographic image, many times removed from its original, isolated on an equally grainy and ambiguous field and enhanced by the silhouetting effects of a single tint.

It's as simple as a scrolling visual unit on the top of apps that shows a few other games on MindJolt.

Unlike apposition eyes, in which each ommatidium is an independent visual unit, superposition compound eyes have ommatidia where the optics function cooperatively.

Compound eye images are sometimes portrayed as multiple, repeating views of the same object (much like we see the world through a multifaceted prism), but in fact the overall view is formed in the same way as it is in our retina each visual unit contributes to one point in the final image.

Crustaceans and insects, however, have a pair of well-developed compound eyes, each consisting of a large number of visual units called ommatidia.

Though some of his individual buildings were noteworthy exercises in Palladianism (a kind of 16th-century Italian Renaissance classicism), he was most highly regarded for his planning of streets and groups of houses as visual units.

Consequently, as the relations between the characters and what they represent are largely unknown to readers and writers of the language, the graphs are seen as groups of lines and angles that make up repeated visual units, just as readers of English recognize whole words without analyzing them into their constituent letters.

"We're actually learning and understanding what all these visual units mean and why they differ between people and we've used that knowledge in order to change the conventional lip reading system and make it better.

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