Brought on as a spear-carrier and expected to blend into the scenery, he proved a smash hit with the critics.

ECONOMIST: The campaign

Likewise, this means the 3D effect never lacks clarity or blurs from movement, and the result is a 3D depth into the scenery that is perfect throughout.

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Like a ghost in a film, melting into the scenery, I was starting to vanish from my life, not by going away somewhere but just by staying where I was and doing what I had always done.

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The clouds sporadically open up a bit to reveal a village, a chunk of a mountain, a patch of jungle, before obscuring them from view again, like stage scenery sliding into the wings.

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Scroll around the view from the window of a highrise in Istanbul, or Beirut, or Chicago, and highlighted chunks of the scenery pop out into some sharply-drawn mini-docs.

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In its simplest state, this is geographical data with a timestamp, but when you plot this data onto the scenery of a map and then create a shifting window into the scene through the sequence of time, you create a data-driven story.

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