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polygonal

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  • a  having many sides or relating to a surface marked by polygons
    polygonal structure

  • The vast plains of the northern polar region of Mars are strewn with tiny pebbles and show polygonal cracking.
  • It is an imposing Indiana limestone structure, roughly triangular, with a vaulted polygonal front spreading fanwise to the rear.
  • This approximate-color image, taken shortly after landing, shows a polygonal pattern in the ground, similar in appearance to the icy ground found in the arctic regions of Earth.
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  • Redesigning Product Design
    The Media Lab’s Neri Oxman, PhD ’10, wants designers not just to dream up new products but to change the way they’re made. On the ground floor of MIT’s Media Lab, a most unusual cocoon is being constructed. Several feet in height, it consists of 32 polygonal panels of silk threads laid down by a computer-controlled machine and then hand-sewn together into an airy three-dimensional scaffold ...
    June 18, 2013 - Technology Review
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  • J Allard in The Age
    The time is right,Allard says. "High-def is something that consumers are finally ready to embrace. The technology is there in terms of what we can do on the silicon to render in high-def without sacrificing the polygonal fidelity and its...

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