He then painted a second version of the same image on an identically sized canvas, this time using flat color to produce a drastically different effect.

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Besides consumer products and technologies, Philips also showed products for corporate users, including the new NetDisplay line of thin-client devices, which include a 15.1-inch flat panel LCD color display with a built-in processor and video core.

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The most advanced weather radar on the market, for example, lets pilots page through screens showing ever-changing maps of what's ahead--rain, approaching thunderstorms, turbulence, wind-shear threats--all color-coded on flat liquid crystal displays.

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The last century has seen only a few major display innovations, among them the move from black-and-white monitors to color and the introduction of flat, liquid crystal displays to replace cathode ray tubes.

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And just as Matisse's paeans to the tension between the three-dimensional world and the flat canvas have been dismissed as "decorative" because of their glorious color and patterning, Veronese's lush figure groups have been similarly labeled, for similar reasons.

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