In Croatia this species is known as kockavica, and the checkerboard pattern of its flowers is held to be the inspiration for the šahovnica pattern on Croatia's coat of arms.

The right side is made up of blue and yellow diamonds alternating in a checkerboard pattern referring to the coat of arms of Felipe de Beaumont y Navarra governor of Puerto Rico ( 1614 – 1620 ) and founder of the city. The crown represents The Cacique ( chieftain ) Arasibo ( Fransico Jamaica Arasibo ). The Turtles represent the ancientness of the city ( the third city of Puerto Rico ) also because of the indigenous people of the region and that the hunting of turtles was a source of wealthness.

The checkerboard coat of arms ( šahovnica ) is widely thought to have been created by Stephen Držislav in the tenth century.

The main coat of arms is a checkerboard ( chequy ) that consists of 13 red and 12 silver ( white ) fields.

The coat of arms of the Duchy of Carniola dates back to the 13th century, when it most probably evolved as a combination of the coats of arms of the Bavarian Counts of Andechs in the Duchy of Merania ( eagle ) and the Rhenish House of Sponheim in Carinthia ( red-white checkerboard ).

The corn would not be planted in rows as it is today, but in a checkerboard / hex fashion across a field, in separate patches of one to four stalks each.

New wales can be begun from any of the edges of a knitted fabric ; this is known as picking up stitches and is the basis for entrelac, in which the wales run perpendicular to one another in a checkerboard pattern.

The proof is that a rectangle covered with a checkerboard pattern will have 10 or 14 each of light and dark squares, while a complete set of free tetrominos ( pictured ) has 11 light squares and 9 dark squares, and a complete set of one-sided tetrominos has 15 light squares and 13 dark squares.

On the surface of each sphere is a checkerboard pattern of inwards and outwards going magnetic field lines.

As the checkerboard pattern of the static spheres is rotated, the rotor rotates.

* The object of the fictional game Squid-Tac-Toad is to get four ( or five ) pieces in-a-row on a 4 × 4 or 5 × 5 checkerboard grid.

A chessboard is the type of checkerboard used in the board game chess, and consists of 64 squares ( eight rows and eight columns ) arranged in two alternating colors ( light and dark ).

Other sites for tourists include the Vacaville Premium Outlets and the Nut Tree, which is home to a train for children and even a life-size checkerboard, as well as numerous stores and places to eat.

The land is the most level of any county in the state, and plats look like a checkerboard, with roads every mile.

Today Miletus is many miles from the sea and Priene stands at the edge of a fertile plain, now a checkerboard of privately owned fields.

The concrete barrier is painted a black and yellow checkerboard motif ; its advisory speed limit is 15 mph.

A plot of, for example, response amplitude versus the check size of a stimulus checkerboard pattern plot can be obtained in 10 seconds, far faster than when time-domain averaging is used to record an evoked potential for each of several check sizes.

The result is loss of pain / temperature sensation ( but not touch / position sensation ) in a unique " checkerboard " pattern ( ipsilateral face, contralateral body ) that is entirely diagnostic.

The body is mostly grey with a white belly ; three prominent ridges run along each side of the animal and the skin is marked with a checkerboard of pale yellow spots and stripes.

With checkerboard colouring, it has 106 white and 104 black squares ( or vice versa ), so parity does not prevent a packing, and a packing is indeed possible.

It was the first block to be laid out, with the rest of the historic center traced out from it in the form of a checkerboard.

In both versions, the plaintext was first converted to digits by use of a straddling checkerboard rather than a Polybius square.

Motifs consisted of two classes: the first type being simple geometric motifs such as the checkerboard and gau ( amulet ) design that probably formed part of an ancient Tibetan design repertoire, mingled with medallion designs and other motifs derived from Chinese decorative traditions.

For example, in the checkerboard paradigm described above, healthy participants ' first response of the visual cortex is around 50-70 ms.

Because direct discretization of the diffusion equation with only first order spatial central differences leads to checkerboard artifacts.

On the first cadence, only half of the original 1080p60 image is displayed – the pixels that correspond to the " black " squares of the checkerboard pattern.

Multi-tissue blocks were first introduced by H. Battifora in 1986 with his so-called “ multitumor ( sausage ) tissue block " and modified in 1990 with its improvement, " the checkerboard tissue block ".

The checkerboard is also closely associated with national symbols of the nation of Croatia.

To avoid a railroad monopoly on good land, the land was not given away in a continuous swath but in a " checkerboard " pattern leaving federal land in between that could be purchased from the government.

The most popular forms are international draughts, played on a 10 × 10 board, followed by English draughts, also called American checkers, played on an 8 × 8 checkerboard, but there are many other variants including several played on a 12 × 12 board.

However this meant that all graphics had to lie within a checkerboard pattern on the screen, and the system was generally less flexible than machines with " real " graphics.

Instead, the original was edited in a " checkerboard " pattern, with each shot synchronized to an equal length of opaque leader on a second roll.

Nielsen's use of the black and white checkerboard motif on his clothing was in line with the use in other parts of pop culture, including Checkerboard Vans sneakers, that feature in the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

If the hexominoes are placed on a checkerboard pattern, then 11 of the hexominoes will cover an even number of black squares ( either 2 white and 4 black or vice-versa ) and 24 of the hexominoes will cover an odd number of black squares ( 3 white and 3 black ).

A checkerboard or chequerboard ( see spelling differences ) is a board of chequered pattern on which English draughts ( checkers ) is played.

A checkerboard marking painted on a hilltop was used as visual guidance on Hong Kong's old Kai Tak Airport.

It is played with Icehouse pieces on a chessboard or checkerboard ; to play with a number of players other than two or four, a small, Non-Euclidean board is available which can be tiled to produce a board of the required size, allowing up to six players.

The start of Series 3 introduced the distinctive black and white checkerboard belt buckles on the jaunting belts, that continued to be used up to Series 5.

Several studies have found increased pSTS activation when subjects perceive a human action that is incongruent with the action expected from the actor ’ s context and inferred intention: for instance, a human performing a reach-to-grasp motion on empty space next to an object, versus grasping the object ; a human shifting eye gaze toward empty space next to a checkerboard target versus shifting gaze toward the target ; an unladen human turning on a light with his knee, versus turning on a light with his knee while carrying a pile of books ; and a walking human pausing as he passes behind a bookshelf, versus walking at a constant speed.

The similarity even goes as far as including the checkerboard pattern on the hull, which the V-2 designers used to measure the roll rate of a rocket during test flights.

The name checker barb comes from the black marks on its side similar in appearance to those found on a checkerboard.

The land was distributed in a checkerboard pattern, with sections laid out for on either side of the rail corridor with the government retaining the alternate sections for future growth.

Hajduk's crest consists of the Croatian checkerboard with 25 red and white checkers bordered with a circle of blue ribbon, with two vertical lines on each side.

This version ( also called " Wolf and Sheep ," " Hounds and Hare ," or " Devil and Tailors ") is played on an 8 × 8 chess / checkerboard.