It recommended using geometric lines of latitude and longitude to convey a three-dimensional Earth on a two-dimensional surface, and it included the co-ordinates of over 8, 000 locations in the ancient world.
Escher and his use of tessellation which uses a two-dimensional plane with a repeating geometric shape with no overlaps and no gaps.
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This is a two-dimensional game, so having a fancy three-dimensional graphics card is not going to matter.
But Stanton is neither a two-dimensional figure of fun nor a murderous bogeyman, and this is why Primary Colors marks an advance over most presidential movies of the past and present.
Artists, he says, rely on our proneness to visual illusions arising out of the fact that all perception involves unconscious inference, as when a two-dimensional retinal image is translated into a three-dimensional perception.
"The prevailing image of Booth is one of a two-dimensional, mustache-twirling villain, " Johnson says.
That, however, only provided the researchers with a two-dimensional map of such concentrations of matter.
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Any part of the round images can be made into a two-dimensional view, while programs find and match faces with stored video images.
In 1959 Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor and Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments each invented the integrated circuit, etching a transistor onto a two- dimensional chip of silicon.
For instance, the ultra-thin layers of graphene (a two-dimensional form of graphite) are formed by injecting liquid solutions containing carbon and silicon into an extremely hot, ionised gas (plasma) of argon.
Recently, researchers writing in Physical Review B suggested that arranging a number of tiny cloaks in a two-dimensional grid could be put to use in biomedicine and sensing, as well as traditional camouflage.
When it comes to Kate Middleton, she exists as a two-dimensional image in print and on television for most of us, and yes, she does look pretty thin in her demure dresses, skinny jeans, and riding outfits.
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Casic officials declined to comment, but a video and a two-dimensional display by the company showed Chinese forces using the WJ600 to help attack what appeared to be a U.S. aircraft carrier steaming toward an island off China's coast that many visitors assumed to be Taiwan.
By using the latest in rear-projection technology, a high resolution, colour 3D-like holographic image is projected onto a flat two-dimensional sheet of acrylic in the shape of a woman.
It can generate a moving two-dimensional image of any view that can be seen from any point inside the hemisphere.
On the desktop, windows have a flatter, two-dimensional feel, meaning the old transparent bordering is a thing of the past.
Picture what it would be like to roll a bowling ball onto the two-dimensional surface of a trampoline.
Digital systems, which process pixels one at a time, have to translate the two-dimensional image into a one-dimensional stream of data.
Creating two dimensional representations of three dimensional objects requires a leap of abstraction.
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Unfortunately, the processing required to perform the integration of all 51 two-dimensional images into a three-dimensional one is so demanding that the computers Dr Kanade has available take five days to produce ten seconds-worth of video.
While Giotto developed a sense of volume in his painting, Duccio stuck to the two-dimensional painting of Cimabue and surpassed it, leavening the Byzantine forms with brilliant hues and a tenderness between Madonna and Child (pictured) that could touch his viewers.
That's when the seismic readings were two-dimensional -- taken along a line.
The best way to do this is to have two high resolution cameras spread apart mapping a three dimensional view of the face.
Sometimes, standard two dimensional photos, even those taken by a 41-megapixel sensor, simply aren't enough to accurately depict a three dimensional object.
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Far more complex two-dimensional codes carry enough data to reconstruct a photo.
The somewhat comical two-dimensional look of the game may be a turn-off for some people, but it is drawn and animated well enough to make up for this failing.
"Two dimensional lines and plots are not able to speak a language that parents understand, " Jain points out in an editorial published with the study.
The radiator grille trim, consisting of two solid aluminum struts and a centrally positioned VW logo, is now a three-dimensional element that extends into the headlights and defines the entire front end.
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By pointedly choosing to portray subjects that were two-dimensional in their own right, he was pursuing the path set a decade earlier when Jasper Johns first painted an American flag, ingeniously showing that the vaunted flatness of Abstract Expressionism could paradoxically be consistent with realism in certain circumstances.
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With a single shutter press, the camera takes two shots consecutively, using the first image to estimate depth information to create a dramatic three-dimensional still image.
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