Rincewind is the Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography, ( he also holds the Chair of Experimental Serendipity, the Reader in Slood Dynamics, the Fretwork Teacher, the Chair for the Public Misunderstanding of Magic, the Professor of Virtual Anthropology, the Lecturer in Approximate Accuracy, and the Health and Safety Officer ).

* Fretwork, an interlaced decorative design that is either carved in low relief on a solid background, or cut out with a fretsaw, jigsaw or scrollsaw

Fretwork is used to adorn furniture and musical instruments.

Fretwork is also used to adorn / decorate architecture, where specific elements of decor are named according to their use.

Fretwork is a consort of viols based in England, United Kingdom.

Fretwork has been most active in this regard, commissioning George Benjamin, Michael Nyman, Elvis Costello, Sir John Tavener, Orlando Gough, John Woolrich, Tan Dun, Alexander Goehr, Fabrice Fitch, Andrew Keeling, Thea Musgrave, Sally Beamish, Peter Sculthorpe, Gavin Bryars, Barrington Pheloung, Simon Bainbridge, Duncan Druce, Poul Ruders, Ivan Moody, and Barry Guy ; many of these compositions may be heard on their 1997 CD Sit Fast.

In the 2000s: an anthology, Classical Kirkby, devised and performed with Anthony Rooley, on the BIS label, 2002 ; Cantatas by Cataldo Amodei, also for BIS, 2004 ; with Fretwork, consort songs by William Byrd, for Harmonia Mundi USA, 2005 .; Scarlatti Stabat Mater with Daniel Taylor, for ATMA, 2006 ; Honey from the Hive, songs of John Dowland, with Anthony Rooley, for BIS, 2006: and Musique and Sweet Poetrie, also for BIS, 2007 ; lute songs from Europe with Jakob Lindberg.

Finally it includes the first recording of ' Birds on Fire ' itself, a three-part piece by Orlando Gough written for Fretwork in 2001.

Fretwork was featured on the soundtracks of two Jim Jarmusch movies, Coffee and Cigarettes ( 2003 ) and Broken Flowers ( 2005 ).

Fretwork patterns originally were ornamental designs used to decorate objects with a grid or a lattice.

Many fine modern viol consorts ( ensembles ) are also recording and performing, among them the groups Fretwork, ORLANDOviols, the Rose Consort of Viols, Phantasm and Sirius Viols.

: Fretwork.

In addition to its performances of early music, Fretwork has been active in commissioning new works for viol consort.

Fretwork has recorded a series of discs for Virgin Classics and currently records for Harmonia Mundi USA.

A transcription for viol consort was recorded by the UK group Fretwork in 2005.

Furthermore, the network in Figure 3 is only the basic net through which other networks pertaining to logistics and the like are interlaced.

But it is the wooden sculpture from Bali, the one representing two men with their heads bent backward and their bodies interlaced by a fish, that I particularly call to your attention.

One of several different HDTV formats that can be transmitted over DTV is: 1280 × 720 pixels in progressive scan mode ( abbreviated 720p ) or 1920 × 1080 pixels in interlaced video mode ( 1080i ).

In interlaced video each frame is composed of two halves of an image.

If an interlaced video has a frame rate of 15 frames per second the field rate is 30 fields per second.

The GIF Specification allows each image within the logical screen of a GIF file to specify that it is interlaced ; i. e., that the order of the raster lines in its data block is not sequential.

An interlaced image is divided from top to bottom into strips 8 pixels high, and the rows of the image are presented in the following order:

The indicator that an image is interlaced is a bit set in the image's header block.

Here the Tigris and Euphrates rivers lie above the level of the plain in many places, and the whole area is a river delta interlaced by the channels of the two rivers and by irrigation canals.

It is often interlaced with maxims and parables.

The Video section, part 2 of MPEG-2, is similar to the previous MPEG-1 standard, but also provides support for interlaced video, the format used by analog broadcast TV systems.

NTSC color encoding is used with the system M television signal, which consists of 29. 97 interlaced frames of video per second.

( This is a consequence of interlaced scanning that is obviated by progressive scan.

Peter Furhring, a specialist in the history of ornament, says that ( also in a French context ): The ornament known as moresque in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ( but now more commonly called arabesque ) is characterized by bifurcated scrolls composed of branches forming interlaced foliage patterns.

* 50i is an interlaced format and is the standard video field rate per second for PAL and SECAM television.

* 60i is an interlaced format and is the standard video field rate per second for NTSC television ( e. g. in the US ), whether from a broadcast signal, DVD, or home camcorder.

Thus, there are depressive disorders, of which the best-known and most researched is major depressive disorder ( MDD ) commonly called clinical depression or major depression, and bipolar disorder ( BD ), formerly known as manic depression and characterized by intermittent episodes of mania or hypomania, usually interlaced with depressive episodes.

Tape-based DV variants, except for DVCPRO Progressive, do not support native progressive recording, therefore progressively acquired video is recorded within interlaced video stream using pulldown.

Progressive video can be recorded with interlaced delivery in mind, in which case high-frequency information between fields is blended to suppress interline twitter.

Frame repeating is similar to field repeating used in interlaced video, and is also called pulldown sometimes.

Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts ; however, like the decorative arts, it creates objects where the practical considerations of use are essential — in a way that they are usually not for a painting, for example.

The thick inner layer of the shell is composed of nacre or mother-of-pearl, which in many species is highly iridescent, giving rise to a range of strong and changeable colors, which make the shells attractive to humans as decorative objects, and as a source of colorful mother-of-pearl.

The meat ( foot muscle ) of abalone is used for food, and the shells of abalone are used as decorative items and as a source of mother of pearl for jewelry and other decorative items.

Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects.

Agate is also still used today for decorative displays, cabochons, beads, carvings and Intarsia art as well as face-polished and tumble-polished specimens of varying size and origin.

This paint is typically used by watercolorists, cartoonists, illustrators, and for decorative or folk art applications.

A bead is a small, decorative object that is usually pierced for threading or stringing.

Lunaria ( honesty ) is cultivated for the decorative value of the translucent replum of the round silicula that remains on the dried stems after dehiscence.

It is known for its small scale and the extreme refinement of its decorative carvings, including several famous narrative bas-reliefs dealing with scenes from Indian mythology.

Because the surface of laterite is uneven, it was not suitable for decorative carvings, unless first dressed with stucco.

This multi-headed nāga is part of a decorative lintel from the end of the 9th century.

Romanesque art owes much to the East, from which it borrowed not only its decorative forms but the plan of some of its buildings, as is proved, for instance, by the domed churches of south-western France.

During final construction, a small section of the outside corners is carved or routed out and filled with binding material on the outside corners and decorative strips of material next to the binding, which are called purfling.

A column might also be a decorative element not needed for structural purposes ; many columns are " engaged with ", that is to say form part of a wall.

The term ' decorative arts ' is a traditional term used in historical discourses to describe craft objects, and also sits within the umbrella of Applied arts.

A somewhat similar decorative class of door to these latter is found in Verona, where the edges of the stiles and rails are beveled and notched.

Similarly, in the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, the so-called święconka, i. e. blessing of decorative baskets with a sampling of Easter eggs and other symbolic foods, is one of the most enduring and beloved Polish traditions on Holy Saturday.

In a garment from Migration period Sweden, roughly 300 – 700 CE, the edges of bands of trimming are reinforced with running stitch, back stitch, stem stitch, tailor's buttonhole stitch, and whipstitching, but it is uncertain whether this work simply reinforces the seams or should be interpreted as decorative embroidery.

During final construction, a small section of the outside corners is carved or routed out and filled with binding material on the outside corners and decorative strips of material next to the binding, which are called purfling.

Of the three, the Southern is the most modern but the Eastern and the Western are more decorative and architecturally interesting.

The beginning of the Iron Age in Europe and adjacent areas is characterized by certain forms of implements, weapons, personal ornaments, and pottery, and also by systems of decorative design, which are altogether different from those of the preceding age of bronze.

The Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa ’ s only accredited museum emphasizing a decorative arts collection, is one of the nation's few museums located within a performing arts and conference complex, the Iowa State Center.