Notable features of Quake 3 include the minimalist design, lacking rarely used items and features, the extensive customizability of player settings such as field of view, texture detail and enemy model, and advanced movement features such as strafe-and rocket-jumping.

The minimalist styled bridge is designed as a sweeping double curve of black granite and the sides are formed of bronze posts that give the impression, from certain angles, of forming a solid wall whereas from others, and to those on the bridge, they are clearly individual entities that allow a view of the water beyond.

The user interface has been redesigned in Windows Media Player 12 such that the Now Playing view plays media in a separate minimalist window with floating playback controls, and also gives access to the current playlist, visualizations, and enhancements.

According to the minimalist view then, truth is indeed a property of propositions ( or sentences, as the case may be ) but it is so minimal and anomalous a property that it cannot be said to provide us with any useful information about or insight into the nature of truth.

Next to the view that Israeli gunfire killed the boy, two alternative narratives emerged, known as the " minimalist " and " maximalist " narratives.

The minimalist soundtrack features a memorable deep-toned electronic " heartbeat ", which quickens as the asteroid density is reduced by the player's fire.

Howard once describes him as having a hairy chest and, while comic book interpretations often portray Conan as wearing a loincloth or other minimalist clothing, Howard describes the character as wearing whatever garb is typical for the land and culture in which Conan finds himself.

( ROMWack is a minimalist debugger built into the operating system which is accessible by connecting a 9600 bit / s terminal to the serial port.

A minimalist approach which was equal parts Val Lewton's theory of " less is more " ( usually employing the low-budget techniques utilized on The Blair Witch Project, 1999 ) has been evident, particularly in the emergence of Asian horror movies which have been remade into successful Americanized versions, such as The Ring ( 2002 ), and The Grudge ( 2004 ).

The music of John Adams is usually categorized as minimalist or post-minimalist although in interview he has categorised himself in typically witty fashion as a ' post-style ' composer.

While Adams employs minimalist techniques, such as repeating patterns, he is not a strict follower of the movement.

It is this pulsing A, played as an eighth note as opposed to a sixteenth note, that pokes fun at the minimalist, yet Adams still uses the pulse ( i. e. alternating eighth notes between the right and left hand, creating a sixteenth note feeling ) as an engine for the movement.

*** Moral realism ( in the robust sense ; see moral universalism for the minimalist sense ) holds that such propositions are about robust or mind-independent facts, that is, not facts about any person or group's subjective opinion, but about objective features of the world.

Minimalist compositions are sometimes known as systems music. The term " minimalist " is often applied colloquially to designate anything which is spare or stripped to its essentials.

( Philip Glass also makes use of atonality, though his style is generally described as minimalist, usually thought of as another 20th century development.

The concept of pythonicity is tightly bound to Python's minimalist philosophy of readability and avoiding the " there's more than one way to do it " approach.

They later released Insen ( 2005 ) – while produced in a similar manner to Vrioon, this album is somewhat more restrained and minimalist.

The purpose of these " minimalist shoes " is to allow one's feet and legs to feel more subtly the impacts and forces involved in running, allowing finer adjustments in running style.

The R6RS standard has caused controversy because it is seen to have departed from the minimalist philosophy.

Smalltalk-80 syntax is rather minimalist, based on only a handful of declarations and reserved words.

There also have more recently arisen " deflationary " or " minimalist " theories of truth based on the idea that the application of a term like true to a statement does not assert anything significant about it, for instance, anything about its nature, but that the label truth is a tool of discourse used to express agreement, to emphasize claims, or to form certain types of generalizations.

TWERPS ( The World's Easiest Role-Playing System ) is a minimalist role-playing game ( RPG ) originally created by Reindeer Games ( whose sole product was the TWERPS line ) and distributed by Gamescience.

The movie was made with a minimalist script ; it is a mood piece exploring people, the city, and a concept: a longing for and love of life, existence, reality.

The attempts to pin him down have not been successful, but the desire to do so is natural when we encounter a writer whose minimalist art reaches for bedrock reality.

Wire's debut album, Pink Flag ( 1977 ) – " perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk ", according to Allmusic – contains songs which are diverse in mood and style, but most use a minimalist punk approach, unorthodox structures, " Field Day For The Sundays ", for example, is only 28 seconds long.

Miffy is drawn in a minimalist style, requiring only a few lines and one or two primary colors.

Traditional Japanese furniture is well known for its minimalist style, extensive use of wood, high-quality craftsmanship and reliance on wood grain instead of painting or thick lacquer.

They are attracted by the minimalist nature and amazing speeds that proas are capable of ( they may still be the fastest sailboats per dollar spent for the home builder ) but they often want the proa to do more ; adding cabins, different sailing rigs, and bidirectional rudders are common changes made.

Their minimalist invitation was made from environmentally friendly paper and had the number 1, 825 written on it, the exact amount of the days the two have spent together as a couple.

In late 2008, Pepsi overhauled its entire brand, simultaneously introducing a new logo and a minimalist label design.

Some variants enclose almost the entire arrow, while minimalist " pocket quivers " consist of little more than a small stiff pouch that only covers the first few inches.

Recorded in rather primitive and " minimalist " two-channel sound, the stereo antiphonal effect is striking ( if crude ); but unfortunately the complete performance from March 21, 1954 of the Tchaikovsky Symhony No. 6 (" Pathetique ") is not entirely stereo as the master 2-track tape of the entire ' Allegro molto vivace ' third movement has apparently not survived ; an artificial stereo synthesis is substituted.

He formed the band to record the album Hit Me With The Surreal Feel, using minimalist lo-fi approaches to recording a basic trio: recording the band live with microphones around the studio capturing the entire sound, rather than one instrument per track.

Here they deconstruct the traditional rock song format, with its verses and choruses, intros and changes, stripping it down to a single minimalist 4 / 4 beat, which Dinger repeats continuously throughout the entire track.

Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the pharaoh Akhenaten ( Amenhotep IV ), written by the American minimalist composer Philip Glass in 1983.

In the final seven years of his life, Whistler did some minimalist seascapes in watercolor and a final self-portrait in oil.

" Christians, he writes, contradict this when they " settle for a life of mediocrity, marked by a minimalist ethic and a shallow religiosity.

With his remarkable life ’ s work Cramer not only prepared the ground for an intensive discussion about the contemporary influence of minimalist art and Land Art on landscape architecture.

Recent composers and performers are strongly influenced by the minimalist works of Philip Glass, a Baltimore native based out of New York, Meredith Monk and others.

These composers and performers are strongly influenced by the minimalist works of Philip Glass, a Baltimore native based out of New York, Meredith Monk and others.

When Adams commented on his own characterization of particular minimalist music, he stated that he went joyriding on " those Great Prairies of non-event.

He made extensive use of minimalist techniques as well, but never became a slave to any particular method.