Convex lasted longer than most minisupercomputer companies, and to celebrate this and more so to remind themselves of the difficulties of the market, Convex had a graveyard of former competitor companies on its property.

* Convex Software Library, a client-side open source solution for Internet Explorer which uses a hidden Java applet to process XForms

HP sold Convex Exemplar machines under the S-Class ( MP ) and X-Class ( CC-NUMA ) titles, and later incorporated some of Exemplar's technology into the V-Class machine, which was released running the HP-UX 11. 0 release instead of the SPP-UX version which was sold with the S-and X-Class products.

According to most former employees, Convex was a very fun place at which to work.

* Tom Christiansen of Perl fame worked at Convex in the Technical Assistance Center and then on a project called Convex Meta Series, which was an attempt to create cheap cluster computers.

Convex lenses have a positive dioptric value, which causes the light to focus closer than its normal range.

* Convex polytope, a polytope which forms a convex set.

* Convex polygon, a polygon which is not concave

In that scene Convex tells Max about the " Image Accumulator ," ( which is the device placed on Max's head during his meeting with Convex ) an experimental new form of night vision that can work in zero-light conditions.

In 2004 Flexplay was sold to The Convex Group which also owned the Lidrock and HowStuffWorks brands.

* Torus — Convex, semi-circular molding, larger than an astragal, often at the base of a column, which may be enriched with leaves or plaiting

Convex Hull-generate another mesh which minimally encloses a given mesh ( think shrink-wrap )

* Convex cone, a subset C of a vector space V is a convex cone if αx + βy belongs to C, for any positive scalars α, β, and any x, y in C

* — Code for Convex Hull, Delaunay Triangulation, Voronoi Diagram, and Halfspace Intersection

The earliest known citation on the Internet is from 1986 on Usenet in the signature of a poster from Convex Computer Corporation as "' I think there is a world market for about five computers ' — Remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson ( Chairman of the Board of International Business Machines ), 1943 ".

Convex Computer Corporation was a company that developed, manufactured and marketed vector minisupercomputers and supercomputers for small-to-medium-sized businesses.

In order to lower costs, the Convex designs were not as technologically aggressive as Cray's, and were based on more mainstream chip technology, attempting to make up for the loss in performance in other ways.

* Co-founder Steve Wallach is well known for his work at Data General, Convex, Convey Computer Corporation and other companies.

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

Among the most respected of the postwar American poets are John Ashbery, the key figure of the surrealistic New York School of poetry, and his celebrated Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1976 ); Elizabeth Bishop and her North & South ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1956 ) and " Geography III " ( National Book Award, 1970 ); Richard Wilbur and his Things of This World, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry in 1957 ; John Berryman and his The Dream Songs, ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1964, National Book Award, 1968 ); A. R.

He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.

** Convex hull for map and mesh collision

# Convex if for each x and y in C, tx +( 1 – t ) y is in C for all t in the unit interval, that is whenever 0 ≤ t ≤ 1.

* Cable molding or ropework — Convex molding carved in imitation of a twisted rope or cord, and used for decorative moldings of the Romanesque style in England, France and Spain and adapted for 18th century silver and furniture design ( Thomas Sheraton )

Marshall founded the website HowStuffWorks. com in 1998 and ran the site until 2002, when he sold it to The Convex Group, an Atlanta-based investment company owned by former Web MD CEO Jeff Arnold, for around $ 1 million.

In 2007, Convex sold it to Discovery Communications for $ 250 million.

* Learning by Simulations – Concave and Convex Lenses

Their commercial development came in work by Burroughs ( later Unisys ), Convex Computer ( later Hewlett-Packard ), Honeywell Information Systems Italy ( HISI ) ( later Groupe Bull ), Silicon Graphics ( later Silicon Graphics International ), Sequent Computer Systems ( later IBM ), Data General ( later EMC ) and Digital ( later Compaq, now HP ) during the 1990s.

* 1976: Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery

Convex was formed in 1982 by Bob Paluck and Steve Wallach in Richardson, Texas.

However, the C3 and the Convex business model were overtaken by changes in the computer industry.

Different versions and derivatives of SCI have been implemented and used in different applications by companies like Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, Convex, Data General ( used cache controller and link controller chips from Dolphin Data General AViiON ), Sequent and Cray Research.

* Convex and Concave, a 1955 lithograph print by the artist M. C. Escher

* Convex Computer, a company that produced a number of vector supercomputers, bought by HP in 1995

In March 2002, HowStuffWorks was sold to the Convex Group, an Atlanta-based investment and media company founded by Jeff Arnold, founder and former chief executive officer ( CEO ) of WebMD.

Convex cloissoné is produced by overfilling each cloison, at the last firing.

* Convex Computer ( founded 1982 as Parsec ; acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1995 )

Convex and Concave is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in March 1955.

In 2004 Flexplay was purchased by The Convex Group who also own the Lidrock and HowStuffWorks brands.

A narrower radiator shell was supported by the new louver style " Convex vee " grill.

A comprehensive and influential book in the subject, called Convex Polytopes, was published in 1967 by Branko Grünbaum.