For the outfits in "Brave, " Pixar animators created a new shading program that wove the individual fibers of the tartan together to create a textured cloth, allowing a kilt to move in a more-realistic fashion.

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But even determined punkers don't just create a new musical vocabulary out of whole cloth.

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Manipulated by puppeteers using rods, the figures create the illusion of moving images on a translucent cloth screen illuminated from behind.

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How can the due process clause he cited--"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"--be used to create a new "right" out of whole cloth?

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