Think of a wooden box that is as large as a foot square, with intricate inlaid geometric designs and patterns of special woods.

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Samsung argued that Apple could not claim the rights for all rectangles with rounded corners or other basic geometric designs used for phones and tablets.

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On his academic blog, Goodacre explains that it was common for the bases of funerary monuments (which, he believes, this part of the engraving depicts, instead of a fish's head) to be decorated with geometric designs, which could easily be represented with the lines in the image.

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The company hired a graphic designer who came back with the typically abstract, geometric cover designs that seem to mean high tech to art school grads.

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Influenced by indigenous craft, the embroidery of Venetian courtiers who ruled the country beginning in 1489, and ancient Greek and Byzantine geometric patterns, Lefkara lace is made by hand in designs combining four basic elements: the hemstitch, cut work, satin stitch fillings and needlepoint edgings.

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There appear to be two kinds of designs: the first are figures of various beings and things and the others form geometric lines.

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