This method of launching gives the bridgelayer a low silhouette which makes it less vulnerable to detection and destruction.

The technique got to Europe almost immediately, and Segundo de Chomon and others at Pathé took it further, adding clay animation, in which sculptures were deformed from one thing into another thing frame by frame in Sculpture moderne ( 1908 ), and then Pathé made the next step to the animation of silhouette shapes.

He designed the figure with a strong, uncomplicated silhouette, which would be set off well by its dramatic harbor placement and allow passengers on vessels entering New York Bay to experience a changing perspective on the statue as they proceeded toward Manhattan.

The 105-mm howitzer M102 is a lightweight towed weapon, which has a very low silhouette when in the firing position.

Grand-Am has only one class for Grand Touring cars which allows production-based GT racers at a spec somewhere between FIA GT2 and GT3 in terms of modification ( e. g. the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup ) to compete with purpose-built tube-frame " silhouette " machines reminiscent of the former IMSA GTO / GTU classes.

The objective of the puzzle is to form a specific shape ( given only an outline or silhouette ) using all seven pieces, which may not overlap.

This was the first building which gave the square its present-day characteristic silhouette ( pyramidal roofs had not yet been built on the Kremlin towers ).

The good honest silhouette maker H Müller had sung Leopoldl's praises to your brother, so he found out that the child is with me, which I'd never told him: so this was how the good idea occurred to him or perhaps his wife.

Notable features include Toolbrunup, Bluff Knoll-the tallest peak in the southwestern region, and a silhouette called The Sleeping Princess which is visible from the Porongurup Range.

That which must be seen in the painting is not a luncheon on the grass ; it is the entire landscape, with its vigors and its finesses, with its foregrounds so large, so solid, and its backgrounds of a light delicateness ; it is this firm modeled flesh under great spots of light, these tissues supple and strong, and particularly this delicious silhouette of a woman wearing a chemise who makes, in the background, an adorable dapple of white in the milieu of green leaves.

In her youth Elisabeth followed the fashions of the age, which for many years were cage-crinolined hoop skirts, but when fashion began to change, she was at the forefront of abandoning the hoop skirt for a tighter and leaner silhouette.

Several so-called Reality TV programs have been criticized for their promotion of venal behavior ; specifically Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire ?, in which fifty women competed to marry a presumed multi-millionaire who was shown only in silhouette.

The dense regions which contain younger or less massive forming stars and have not blown away the material from which they formed are often seen in silhouette against the rest of the ionised nebula — these dark patches are known as Bok globules, after astronomer Bart Bok, who proposed in the 1940s that they might be stellar birthplaces, a hypothesis which was shown to be correct in 1990.

Around that time, Johnson began his silhouette project, creating approximately 200 profiles of personal friends, artists, and celebrities which became the basis for many of his later collages.

Her silhouette could be seen alongside other characters in the main entrance and her image was posted around different areas of the land. She was also featured on the trademark water fountain which would spray water at unsuspecting guests at random intervals.

The tank's low silhouette, which could be lowered from to only, was also a big advantage.

In the beginning of the film, Oddjob is first seen only via silhouette against a wall as he knocks Bond unconscious at the Fontainebleau Hotel, after which he or Goldfinger kills Jill Masterton ( with whom Bond had spent the night ) through " skin suffocation " by painting her entire body with gold paint.

The design proved unsatisfactory for numerous reasons, including a lethally-high silhouette, a sluggish and barely-functional manual turret traverse, a slow reload rate, and a high center of gravity which risked tipping the vehicle over when attempting to surmount even small obstacles.

Egyptian painting depicts figures in bold outline and flat silhouette, in which symmetry is a constant characteristic.

It presents the silhouette of the typical cuckoo clock with deer head but without any sort of three dimensional woodwork, it only has a flat surface with a gap, from which the bird pops out as usual.

The main advantage of shadow volumes is that they are accurate to the pixel ( though many implementations have a minor self-shadowing problem along the silhouette edge, see construction below ), whereas the accuracy of a shadow map depends on the texture memory allotted to it as well as the angle at which the shadows are cast ( at some angles, the accuracy of a shadow map unavoidably suffers ).

This leaves a rough shadow artifact near the silhouette edge which is difficult to correct.

From 1992 to 1997, Cinemax aired one movie each day of the week that would be centered around a certain genre, represented by various pictures that would play in a specialized feature presentation bumper before the start of the movie ; the symbols included: Comedy ( represented by an abstract face made up of various movie props, with the mouth open to look like it is laughing ), Suspense ( represented by a running man silhouette ), Premiere ( represented by an exclamation point caught in spotlights ), Horror ( represented by a skull ), Drama ( represented by abstract comedy & tragedy masks ), Vanguard ( represented by a globe ), Action ( represented by a machine gun ) and Classic ( represented by a classic movie-era couple embracing and kissing ).

Building on the shot-blocking power of Mutombo and teammate Alonzo Mourning, Georgetown fans created a " Rejection Row " section under the basket, adding a big silhouette of an outstretched hand to a banner for each shot blocked during the game.

We then see the infamous green title card with CI5 written in big, black, stencil-style letters, " The Professionals " written in white over it and three yellow squares on the right hand side, each containing a silhouette of one of the three principal actors.

The Arch is a single trilithon with a vague silhouette of a man and a woman on each of its supporting megaliths several meters from the arch.

" Berezovsky had sued both the channel and a man called Vladimir Terluk, whom Mr Justice Eady agreed was the man who had been interviewed in silhouette by the programme under the pseudonym ' Pyotr '.

The night was so clear that Richardson had no difficulty making out the silhouette.

When a tank destroyer was used against enemy tanks from a defensive position, eg by ambush, a rotating turret was not particularly critical and where a low silhouette was paramount not desirable.

In 1877 a green silhouette was used to create a ghostlike image ; ten years later a trick chair was used to allow an actor to appear in the middle of the scene, and then again from the midst of the audience.

Since the shorts were produced during the rise of film noir in cinema, the change was usually represented as a stylized sequence: Clark Kent's silhouette is clearly seen behind a closed door's pebble glass window ( or a shadow thrown across a wall ) as he strips to his Superman costume.

Again, converse to popular knowledge, the " shadow " is not the remains or ash of the victim, but in fact it was the area around the shadow, not obscured by the person's silhouette that was lightened by X-rays from the burst, leaving a dark " negative " shadow.

The LWS was demonstrated to General Halder on 2 August 1940 by the Reinhardt Trials Staff on the island of Sylt and, though he was critical of its high silhouette on land, he recognised the overall usefulness of the design.

The entire Simpson family was designed so that they would be recognizable in silhouette.

William Cobb suspected his wife of infidelity, and was sneaking past his own bedroom window to catch her in the act ; she saw the silhouette of what she presumed to be an intruder, and, acting in self-defense, shot and killed her husband.

In February 1924, he demonstrated to the Radio Times that a semi-mechanical analogue television system was possible by transmitting moving silhouette images.

The bluescreen shot was then rephotographed again, this time through a red and green filter so that only the foreground image was cast on film, creating a black silhouette on an unexposed ( clear ) background.

The entire Simpson family was designed so that they would be recognizable in silhouette.

The entire Simpson family was designed to be easily recognized in silhouette.

Instead, the portrait was reduced to a small profile in silhouette, a format that is still used on commemorative stamps.

Instead, only a silhouette of the couple was included.

" Additionally, a silhouette of Niyazov was used as a logo on television broadcasts and statues and pictures of him were " erected everywhere ".

The exaggerated structure of certain Victorian dress elements was part of an effort by designers to emphasise the popular silhouette of the moment.