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.
Digital systems, which process pixels one at a time, have to translate the two-dimensional image into a one-dimensional stream of data.
But his nimble intelligence and excellent eye failed to produce more than a pictorial pastiche that was flat and one-dimensional or a shallow sendup of the past.
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Instead of doing a drawing you can now do a 3 dimensional representation on a computer screen of each part.
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This is a two-dimensional game, so having a fancy three-dimensional graphics card is not going to matter.
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.
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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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.
If you watched Chelsea in the Champions League semi-final, second leg at Liverpool last season, they were so one-dimensional for a top team it wasn't true.
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Unlike conventional cameras, our femto camera captures an image as one thin slice at a time of one-dimensional space using a "streak tube, " a laboratory instrument that is commonly used by chemists to study light passing through chemical samples.
This technique even allows us to see a three-dimensional object such as a mock-up of running person.
Crane devised a new measure of energy consumption: a three-dimensional unit he called a cubic mile of oil.
One of their programs displays stretches of DNA in a three-dimensional color format that a customer can use, for example, to pinpoint the genetic differences between healthy and cancerous prostate tissue.
Picture what it would be like to roll a bowling ball onto the two-dimensional surface of a trampoline.
While current screens have a great gee-whiz feel, they are still a far cry from achieving the effect demanded of most three-dimensional researchers: a realistic, moving hologram like the one of Princess Leia projected from a lens inside R2D2 in Star Wars.
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.
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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Your entire peripheral vision is filled up and has a dimensional, almost 3D quality.
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Creating two dimensional representations of three dimensional objects requires a leap of abstraction.
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This new system, as with a traditional CAT scan, uses X-rays shot from multiple angles, and assembled into one three-dimensional image by a computer.
But she argues that modern atheism is as one-dimensional and transient a phenomenon as the modern varieties of theism (including fundamentalism) to which it responds.
The motif of the "brushstroke, " painted and three-dimensional, as a goof on Willem de Kooning in 1960s and on graffiti by the 1990s, serves to unify the exhibition.
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Inside was a harsh review of Nvidia's new graphics card, the brawny set of microchips that makes the aliens and bullets come to three-dimensional life on a personal computer.
Those waves reflect off the body to transmit a three-dimensional image of the passenger that looks like a fuzzy photo negative.
The images are then merged to create a three-dimensional look at the sample, in this case a fruit-fly embryo.
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.
But the intention is to provide a more multi-dimensional view of educational achievement - and create a databank which will be updated, in a project that Pearson is calling the Learning Curve.
Simply creating AI that can navigate a three-dimensional world without getting stuck has been the undoing of many a game.
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Also, the intricate polarized pattern, which sparkles under the sleek surface, creates a three-dimensional illusion that is eye-catching and exquisitely reminiscent of a jewel.
His conjecture, made in 1904, was that in this four-dimensional world, all closed three-dimensional surfaces that are simply connected could be transformed to look like a three-dimensional sphere.
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