However, wall depictions of this instrument have not been discovered, casting some doubt over the extent to which this instrument was used.

Triangular crucibles were then used to melt the brass for casting.

Indian Hindu artisans from the period of the Chola empire in Tamil Nadu, used bronze to create intricate statues via the lost wax casting method with ornate detailing depicting the Gods of Hinduism mostly, but also the lifestyle of the period.

The sundial, which measures the time of day by using the sun casting a shadow onto a cylindrical stone, was widely used in ancient times.

Ceramic forming techniques include shaping by hand ( sometimes including a rotation process called " throwing "), slip casting, tape casting ( used for making very thin ceramic capacitors, e. g. ), injection molding, dry pressing, and other variations.

Due to the large number of calculations, a work in progress is usually only rendered in detail appropriate to the portion of the work being developed at a given time, so in the initial stages of modeling, wireframe and ray casting may be used, even where the target output is ray tracing with radiosity.

Though the fiber flow ( local inhomogeneities of the material's chemical composition generated during casting ) doesn ’ t follow the shape of the crankshaft ( which is undesirable ), this is usually not a problem since higher quality steels, which normally are difficult to forge, can be used.

After casting, the sorts are arranged into type-cases, and used to make up pages which are inked and printed, a procedure which can be repeated hundreds, or thousands, of times.

To secure the initial stitches of a knitted fabric, a method for casting on is used ; to secure the final stitches in a wale, one uses a method of binding off.

Different methods of casting on are used for different effects: one may be stretchy enough for lace, while another provides a decorative edging — Provisional cast-ons are used when the knitting will continue in both directions from the cast-on.

Pure paraffin wax is rarely used for carving original models for casting metal and other materials in the lost wax process, as it is relatively brittle at room temperature and presents the risks of chipping and breakage when worked.

The first ray casting ( versus ray tracing ) algorithm used for rendering was presented by Arthur Appel in 1968.

Amongst the Warring States period swords, some unique technologies were used, such as casting high tin edges over softer, lower tin cores, or the application of diamond shaped patterns on the blade ( see sword of Goujian ).

He used stock characters, and the roles were filled with untrained people from the appropriate classes ; he avoided casting stars.

This practice of symbolically casting a spear into the enemy ranks at the start of a fight was sometimes used in historic clashes, to seek Odin's support in the coming battle.

* Core ( manufacturing ), used in casting and molding

These can be used by anyone, not just magi, and do not suffer the usual modifiers to casting which spells do.

Soapstone can be used to create molds for casting objects from soft metals, such as pewter or silver.

The techniques for bronze casting, used at the time for making coins ( as well as bells and statues ) were adapted to making metal type.

His method of casting type may have been different from the hand mould used in subsequent decades.

It has also been suggested that the method used by Gutenberg involved using a single punch to make a mould, but the mould was such that the process of taking the type out disturbed the casting, creating variants and anomalies, and that the punch-matrix system came into use possibly around the 1470s.

For light and medium freshwater gamefishing, any reasonably robust casting or spinning rod can be used as a trolling rod.

In contrast with subsistence and commercial fishing, which usually involve nets, fishing rods are typically used in the sports of angling and competitive casting.

Commonly used electronic devices which are found in practically every hospital are closed-circuit TV and audio systems for internal paging and instruction, along with radiation counters, timers, and similar devices.

Speer and coworkers, in a similar study of blood group antibodies of whole sera, used a series of gradients for elution from Aj.

Forty other figures similar to 5 and 6 and the original data used in the construction of all figures and tables in this monograph have been included in the Appendix.

My lawyer told me that his mother used a similar remedy for cuts and wounds ; ;

The most famous such organism is Amoeba proteus ; the name amoeba is variously used to describe its close relatives, other organisms similar to it, or the amoeboids in general.

In the juvenile ( or tadpole ) stage, gills are used to oxygenate blood and the circulation is similar to that of fish.

While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system — that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.

In Cyrillic originally the letters were given names based on Slavic words ; this was later abandoned as well in favor of a system similar to that used in Latin.

Basic theories, such as arithmetic, real analysis and complex analysis are often introduced non-axiomatically, but implicitly or explicitly there is generally an assumption that the axioms being used are the axioms of Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory with choice, abbreviated ZFC, or some very similar system of axiomatic set theory like Von Neumann – Bernays – Gödel set theory, a conservative extension of ZFC.

The museum building is shaped like a longbow similar to those used at the battle by archers under King Henry.

The anarcho-capitalist flag is also widely used by voluntaryists, whose philosophy is very similar.

Someone also suggested that these large roads were used to quickly move an army from the canyon to the outlier communities, a purpose similar to the road systems known for the Roman empire.

Because and can be very similar numbers, the precision of the result can be much less than the inherent precision of the floating-point arithmetic used to perform the computation.

Very similar algorithms can be used to compute the covariance.

The title of Archimandrite ( literally the head of the enclosure ) used to mean something similar.

The equation for the conservation of mass for an acoustic medium can also be derived in a manner similar to that used for the conservation of momentum.

* A similar setting is used by Sydney Padua in the webcomic The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage.

The common name " naked lady " used for Amaryllis is also used for other bulbs with a similar growth and flowering pattern ; some of these have their own widely used and accepted common names, such as the resurrection lily ( Lycoris squamigera ).

A similar vessel was transported to the Musée du Louvre in 1867, a limestone dim, used for storing the must from the grapes, which dates to the sixth century BC.

In helicopters, auto stabilization was used in a similar way.

Although used for similar purposes, transparent colors and image masks do not permit the smooth blending of the superimposed image pixels with those of the background ( only whole image pixels or whole background pixels allowed ).

The keyboard included a form of Single-key keyword input, similar to that used on the Sinclair Spectrum, via the ' func ' key.