Occasionally, roads are realigned or extended to meet each other directly at a cross-road, leading to odd curves and name changes.
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The colors are soft, pillowy pinks and blues, shading into gray, and the image is a flickering mosaic of jostling rectangles and odd curves that dissolve into ether.
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Though not itself a branch of geometry, it is applicable to geometry, and it solved two families of problems that had long been almost intractable : finding tangent lines to odd curves, and finding areas enclosed by those curves.
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But not so much to blow his cornfield down . ( It did, once, but the stalks straightened themselves up again, sort of, if you don't count the odd curve at the base of each one .)