what is the definition of diorama?
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A diorama is a partially three dimensional model of a landscape typically showing historical events, nature scenes, cityscapes, etc. for purposes of education or entertainment. The term was coined by Louis Daguerre in 1822, for a kind of rotating display. Frank M. Chapman, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History during the late 19th and early 20th century, helped popularize the style commonly seen today.\n\nDioramas typically will use a tilted plane to represent what would otherwise be a level surface, a painted background of distant objects, and often employ false perspective, carefully modifying the scale of objects placed on the plane to reinforce the illusion through depth perception of viewing a larger space—representations of objects (of identical real-world size) placed further from the observer are smaller than those closer. Often the distant painted background or sky will be painted upon a continuous curved surface so that the viewer is not distracted by corners, seams, or edges. All of these techniques are means of presenting a reasonably realistic view of a large scene in a compact space. A photograph or single eye view of such a diorama can be especially convincing since in this case there is no distraction by the binocular perception of depth.
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Deja vu....\n\nIn the movie matrix, I think they called it a glitch.
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Main Entry:  floccinaucinihilipilification\n\nPart of Speech:  noun\n\nDefinition:  an act or instance of judging something to be worthless or trivial\n\nEtymology:  the parts of the word each mean `at nothing' or `with a small price'
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There is a theatrical term that describes when the exterior environment (weather e.g.) matches what's happening in the play.\n\nI don't know the term, but maybe this will help you find out.
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Commercial art\nPhotography
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The Imagination of Imagery
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I use the word to describe an insane/chaotic situation.  \nThe exact definition is: \nme·shu·gaas or mish·e·gaas or mish·e·goss\nn. Slang \nCrazy or senseless activity or behavior; craziness.
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Another interesting concept that is illustrated by some of Escher's prints is self-similarity at different scales - i.e. fractals.\n\nFor example:\nhttp://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e49/UKild/escher_smaller_and_smaller.jpg\n\nI have offered an answer to your question, now would you please explain to me what "math divulgation" means to you?
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an erroneous mental representation \nsomething many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy" \ndelusion: the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas \nmagic trick: an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers \n\n\nAn illusion is a distortion of a sensory perception. Each of the human senses can be deceived by illusions, but visual illusions are the most well known. Some illusions are subjective; different people may experience an illusion differently, or not at all.
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A syndrome of mental depression and suicidal tendencies, in which the patient complains of having lost everything: possessions, part of or entire body, often believing that he or she has died and is a walking corpse. This delusion is usually expanded to the degree that the patient might claim that he can smell his own rotting flesh and feel worms crawling through his skin. The latter phenomenon is a recurring experience of people chronically deprived of sleep or suffering amphetamine/cocaine psychosis. Paradoxically, being "dead" often gives the patient the nation of being immortal. Other megalomelancholic ideas may be present. Aetiology unknown. Seen especially in manic-depressive patients or in certain brain syndromes.
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In meteorology, an airmass or air mass is a large volume of air having fairly uniform characteristics of temperature, atmospheric pressure, and water vapor content. Air masses cover many hundreds or thousands of square miles, and slowly change in accordance with the terrain they are over.
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encyclopedia britannica
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Playdoh, puppets, areas....
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GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a bitmap image format for pictures with up to 256 distinct colours from the over 16 million representable in 24 bit rgb. The format was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web. GIFs are compressed files, and were adopted to reduce the amount of time it takes to transfer images over a network connection.
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Personification... \nA figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form...example: Hunger sat shivering on the road, or Flowers danced about the lawn. Also called prosopopeia.
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Reality TV Gone Wild.\n\nThe Real World War.\n\nDancing With The Political Stars.
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The correct term is "deus ex machina," and literally, it means "God from the machine."\n\nIt's when something quite improbable happens at the end of a story... realizing it was just a dream, or when a hero shows up at the last moment unexpectedly with the solution to the problem.  It could even be used to refer to a "twist" or unexpected ending.\n\nIt originates form Greek theatre, when a machine (like a crane) would lower actors playing God onto the stage, where they would resolve the problematic storyline.