And cosseted carefully behind the glass doors of the Providence cabinet, an assortment of rough bricks takes on engaging visual properties that are lushly tactile, formal and abstract.
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A top may also be used to demonstrate visual properties, such as by James David Forbes and James Clerk Maxwell in Maxwell's disc ( see color triangle ).
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The object is illuminated not by a replacement of its own visual properties, but by the corresponding visual surface placed behind the object as seen from an arbitrary viewing point.
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Different chess pieces were used as metaphors for different classes of people, and human duties were derived from the rules of the game or from visual properties of the chess pieces:
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In this way, Lambert quantified purely visual properties ( such as luminous power, illumination, transparency, reflectivity ) by relating them to physical parameters ( such as distance, angle, radiant power, and color ).
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The number and variety of copper objects recovered at Lamanai indicate that, as a new commodity with remarkably unique aural and visual properties, metal artifacts played an important role for at least some members of Postclassic and later contact period society.
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Her approach to abstraction has ranged from works exploring the visual properties of the geometric still life to free-form paintings in the form of collaged pieces of canvas that are joined to create larger abstractions that are free from the stretch.
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This insistence on the close attention to the visual properties of works of art became a characteristic of the Vienna School of Art History, and was continued by Eitelberger's students and successors, Moritz Thausing, Franz Wickhoff, and Alois Riegl.
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Today, the Cornell box is often used to demonstrate renderers in a similar way as the Stanford bunny and the Utah teapot are; computer scientists often use the scene just for its visual properties without comparing it to test data from a physical model.
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Some of them are clearly sculptures; others combine the genre characteristics of sculpture and painting . . . ( his wall objects ) involved an attempt to combine artwork with the power of object by merging inner powers of materials with their outer visual properties ."
