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Lmnardo. Vol. 11, pp. 68-69. Pergamon Press 1978. Printed in Great Britain TERMINOLOGY The terms defined in this section were selected from artists' Numbers in brackets, e.g. [ 1I. 171refer to the dictionaries listed. Articles and Notes published in the previous issue of Leonardo The definitions are not presumed to be unassailable. The Editors (cf. Ref. 12 below). Either the terms were not found in the art would, therefore. welcome the comments of readers on the dictionaries listed or they are used in a new sense. Someare terms definitions presented. The following references have been that have been carried over into the field of art from the natural consulted: and social sciences, from mathematics and from technology. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. X. 9. 10. I I. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. The Addine Art Dictionury. Jules Adeline. Frederick Ungar. New York, 1967. The Eusic Dictionarv ofScience. Ed. E. C. Graham. Macmillan. New York. 1965. Eritcmnicu World Lunguuge Dictiunarj,. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Chicago. 1962. A Dictionary qf Art and ,4rti.st,s. Third Edition. Peter and Linda Murray. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex. England. 1972. A Dictionary q f A r f Terms. Reginald G. Hagger. Hawthorn Books, New York, 1962. A Dictionary of Art Twms and Tochnique.~. Ralph Mayer. Thomas Y. Crowell, New York. 1969. Dictionary q/'the Arts. Martin L. Wolf, Philosophical Library, New York, 1951. Dictionnairepolyglotte des termrs d'arret dhrchtologie. Louis Reau. Presses Universitaires de France. Paris. 1953. Glossary o f Art, Archirwture and Design sinw 1945. John A. Walker. Clive Bingley, London, 1973. Glossary nf Modern Art. John O'Dwyer and Raymond Le Mage. The Philosophical Library. New York. The Harper Enc.vclopaedia qfScience. Ed. James R. Newman. Harper and Row. New York, 1963. Lcwnardo. International Journal of the Contemporary Artist. 10, No. 4. Pergamon Press, Oxford. 1977. Mathematics Dictionary. Third Edition. James and James. D. Van Nostrand. Princeton. 1968. The Penguin Dictionary ofSciencc,. E. B. Uvarov. D. R. Chapman and A. Isaacs. Schocken Books. New York. 1972. Pergamon Dictionary n f Art. John FitzMaurice Mills. Pergamon Press. Oxford. 1965. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Third Edition. Revised with Addenda. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1965. Websterb New Collegiate Dictionary. Eighth Edition. G. and C. Merriam. Springfield. Mass.. 1973. 848. Colorant (in color technology)-A substance used for coloring a material: a dye or pigment. ([I21 p. 266; [ Wehster'k Third New International Dictionary (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam. 1971)l) 849. CyaIume light-A closed transparent plastic tube. about the size of a cigar. containing two liquids that when mixed react chemically for a period of 6 to 8 hours producing light of sufficient intensity to be seen at night at more than 2 km distance. The tube is bent to break a barrier within it. permitting the two liquids to mix. It is produced by American Cyanamid Co.. New York. N.Y.. U.S.A. ([I21 p. 308) Edge-following picture generation (in c'on?putrrart)-A technique of computer picture generation in which a picture is constructed piecewise by adding design elements within each arbitrarily designated region of the picture plane. First the edge of the region is lined by one line of elements; then the process is repeated. lining the outer edge of the remaining uncovered portion; the region iscompleted by repeating the process until the region is covered by design elements. ([I21 p. 273) Free-surface water table (influidmechanics) (cf. Term 859: ripple tank) 850. 851. 852. Hydraulic jump (injiuid mechanics)- The feature. an abrupt change in depth, occurring in open channel liquid flow at the liquid's supercritical velocity of flow. Upstream of the lump. the liquid moves with a high velocity at a low depth; downstream of the jump, with a low velocity and a high depth. ([I21 p. 267; [EncyclopadiaBrifannica(Chicago: William Benton. 1962)Vol. 15. p. 1651) 853. Hydrodynamics-A branch of physics that deals with the motion of fluids and the forces acting on solid bodies immersed in fluids. ([I21 p. 268; [17]) lsopropyl alcohol (in cliemi.stry)-A volatile. colorless liquid commonly used as rubbing alcohol for medicinal purposes and as a solvent. ([I21 p. 267; [17]) Laminar flow (in .fluid n?ec...

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