At this point the stalk bifurcates into two furrowed spirals, between which the cylinder opening acts as the trap entrance.

Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux ..."

In the opening shown at the start of Matthew the evangelist portrait to the left is in a consistent adaptation of Italian style, probably closely following some lost model, though adding interlace to the chair frame, while the text page to the right is mainly in Insular style, especially in the first line, with its vigorous Celtic spirals and interlace.

A different mixture is seen in the opening from the Stockholm Codex Aureus ( mid-8th century, left ) where the evangelist portrait to the left is in a consistent adaptation of Italian style, probably closely following some lost model, though adding interlace to the chair frame, while the text page to the right is mainly in Insular style, especially in the first line, with its vigorous Celtic spirals and interlace.

It is also mentioned that Gnommish is a mix of symbolic and alphabetic letters, running in spirals ( but since reading in spirals gives most fairies migraines, most modern fairy script is arranged in horizontal lines ).

In Blood Music, reality becomes unstable as the number of observers — trillions of intelligent single-cell organisms — spirals higher and higher.

In mature-disc phyllotaxis, when all the elements are the same size, the shape of the spirals is that of Fermat spirals — ideally.

Driven by contacts with a drug dealer — and by increasing KGB pressure to hack successfully into foreign systems — Karl spirals into a cocaine dependency and grows increasingly alienated from David.

Its shell is carved from a single block of ( sometimes highly-figured, knotted or marbled ) wood, maybe with a carved design or geometric pattern ( such as furrows, flutes, diamonds and / or spirals — it is often a costly, heirloom-type or vintage musical instrument ).

* Hopeless ( Hades ) A bleak, gray city where colors are forbidden, built like a maelstrom that spirals to a central murky tarpit — a sinkhole to its patron realm.

Specifically as flow moves around a bend it spirals in the opposite direction in the deep sea compared to the spiral to that found in river channels on land.

In the collection of physical instruments at the Technical High School at Karlsruhe ( where these researches were carried out ), Hertz had found and used for lecture purposes a pair of so-called Eiess spirals or Knochenhauer spirals.

It seems that spirals were an important motif for the megalith builders, and have been found carved into megalithic structures all over Europe – along with other symbols such as lozenges, eye-patterns, zigzags in various configurations, and cup and ring marks.

The interlace, like that of the Durham fragment, is mostly large compared to the Book of Lindisfarne, but the extreme level of detail found in later Insular books begins here in the Celtic spirals and other curvilinear decoration used in initials and in sections of carpet pages.

Crisscrossing spirals found in nature

A fourth type, SBm, was subsequently created to describe somewhat irregular barred spirals, such as the Magellanic Cloud galaxies, which were once classified as irregular galaxies, but have since been found to contain barred spiral structures.

Many of the motifs found at Knowth are typical: spirals, lozenges and serpentiform.

Common to several of these observations spirals were found to be ' compressed ', displaying larger estimates of eddy viscosity when considering the rate of rotation with depth than the eddy viscosity derived from considering the rate of decay of speed.

Ekman spirals are also found in the atmosphere.

Some of the earliest ideas on how physical and mathematical processes and constraints affect biological growth, and hence natural patterns such as the spirals of phyllotaxis, were written by D ' Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Alan Turing.

Like other Insular manuscripts, the decoration has features relating to pre-Christian Celtic art, featuring spirals, tri-partite divisions of circles, common in the La Tene style, as well as Germanic and Mediterranean elements.

Pairs perform elements specific to the discipline such as throw jumps, in which the man ' throws ' the woman into a jump ; lifts, in which the woman is held above the man's head in one of various grips and positions ; pair spins, in which both skaters spin together about a common axis ; death spirals ; and other elements such as side-by-side jumps and spins in unison.

Many dynamic spirals ( such as the Parker spiral of the solar wind, or the pattern made by a Catherine's wheel ) are Archimedean.

Traditional topiary forms use foliage pruned and / or trained into geometric shapes such as balls or cubes, obelisks, pyramids, cones, or tapering spirals.

The Malaysian batik is also famous for its geometrical designs, such as spirals.

The generative spiral is a consequence of the same process that produces the clockwise and counter-clockwise spirals that emerge in densely packed plant structures, such as Protea flower disks or pinecone scales.

Like that film, it features recurring images of spirals, such as the ' Spirale ' Cafe behind Manni's phone box and the spiral staircase down which Lola runs.

The dish consists of sheep's small intestines, spleen, and pancreas, fried in their own grease in such a manner that they form small spirals.

Junior and Senior programs also include moves in the fields where the whole team does moves such as spirals, spread eagles or ina bauers connected.

Different types of pairs element include spins, lifts, and pivots such as death spirals.

* Movement in Isolation: In this element some of the skaters are isolated from the rest of the team while performing free skating elements such as spins, spirals, lifts, or jumps.

* Moves in the Field: This element is a sequence of movements that must include free skating moves such as spirals, spread eagles, Ina Bauers, and other flowing moves with strong edges, connected with linking steps.

Long stretches have gradients of up to 1 in 36 and hillclimbing techniques such as railway spirals.

The La Tène style of Celtic art reached the British Isles rather late, no earlier than about 400 BC, and developed a particular " Insular Celtic " style seen in objects such as the Battersea Shield, and a number of bronze mirror-backs decorated with intricate patterns of curves, spirals and trumpet-shapes.

This is characterised by " tall funnel-like Keftiu cups of Type III "; " small closed shapes such as squat jugs decorated with hatched loops (' rackets ') or simplified spirals "; " dark-on-light lustrous-painted motifs ", which " include small neat types of simple linked spiral such as varieties of hook-spiral or wave-spiral ( with or without small dots in the field ), forms of the hatched loop and double-axe, and accessorial rows of small dots and single or double wavy lines "; and also the " ripple pattern " on " Keftiu " cups.

In spite of this, some male skaters are known for their spirals, such as Toller Cranston, Paul Wylie, and Shawn Sawyer.

The most common motifs are the cup mark ( cupule ), boats, horses, people ( often brandishing weapons ), foot soles, wagons, and many kinds of abstract geometrical symbols ( such as spirals, concentric circles etc.

La Tène style is " a highly stylised curvilinear art based mainly on classical vegetable and foliage motifs such as leafy palmette forms, vines, tendrils and lotus flowers together with spirals, S-scrolls, lyre and trumpet shapes ".

One early twentieth century idea of " primitive ", or less derived, angiosperms that was accepted until relatively recently was modeled on the Magnolia blossom with numerous parts arranged in spirals on an elongated receptacle rather than the small numbers of parts in distinct whorls of more derived flowers.

In comic books in the latter half of the 20th century, there often appeared an advertisement for " X-ray Specs " which displayed the face of a smiling boy wearing glasses with spirals on the lenses looking at his hand through which he could see the bones.

In other types of cells ( type II ), the Fas-DISC starts a feedback loop that spirals into increasing release of proapoptotic factors from mitochondria and the amplified activation of caspase-8.

* Singles competition for men and women ( who are referred to as " ladies " in ISU rulebooks ), wherein skaters perform jumps, spins, step sequences, spirals, and other elements in their programs.

* Galaxies come in a great variety of shapes and sizes ( see the Hubble Sequence ), from giant, featureless blobs of old stars ( called elliptical galaxies ) to thin disks with gas and stars arranged in highly-ordered spirals.

Galaxies come in three main types: ellipticals, spirals, and irregulars.

In spiral galaxies, the spiral arms do have the shape of approximate logarithmic spirals, a pattern that can be theoretically shown to result from a disturbance in a uniformly rotating mass of stars.

Early pottery was painted with spirals, zigzags, dots, or animals.

* Spiralzoom. com an educational website about the science of pattern formation, spirals in nature, and spirals in the mythic imagination & labyrinths.

and are slightly unstable because small changes in position upset the balance between gravity and inertia, allowing one or the other force to dominate, so that the spacecraft either flies off into space or spirals in toward the barycenter.

Integrated into his prints were mirror images of cones, spheres, cubes, rings and spirals.

It was probably an application of spiral movement in space ( spirals were a special study of Archimedes ) to a hollow segmented water-wheel used for irrigation by Egyptians for centuries.

A novelty variation on the standard format was the use of multiple concentric spirals with different recordings.

The first five zeros in the critical strip are clearly visible as the place where the spirals pass through the origin.

In it he states, "[...] the early discovery that the great Andromeda spiral had the quite exceptional velocity of – 300 km (/ s ) showed the means then available, capable of investigating not only the spectra of the spirals but their velocities as well.

Thorium dioxide was used to control the grain size of tungsten metal used for spirals of electric lamps.

As the gas slows and adds energy to the disks, it spirals in to the center exhaust.

In his autobiography, he discussed the years of problems they had experienced because of Leigh's illness: " Throughout her possession by that uncannily evil monster, manic depression, with its deadly ever-tightening spirals, she retained her own individual canniness – an ability to disguise her true mental condition from almost all except me, for whom she could hardly be expected to take the trouble.

Hertz had been surprised to find that it was not necessary to discharge large batteries through one of these spirals in order to obtain sparks in the other ; that small Leyden jars amply sufficed for this purpose, and that even the discharge of a small induction coil would do, provided it had to spring across a spark gap.