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They differ by their marbling patterns, strigata contain V-stripes and fasciata contain Y-stripes. Marbled hatchetfish are adapted to life in the Amazonian rivers as they resemble a dead leaf floating sideways on the surface of a body of water. This camouflage protects them against potential predators that may be lurking in the water. Their ...
Marble mis-nomers: Cetechovice marble (cetechovický mramor) from Cetechovice, Kroměříž District: coloured [c] Karlík marble (karlický mramor), from Barrandien, Karlík, Prague-West District: black with gold-yellow-colour veins [d] Podol marble (Podolský mramor), from Vápenný Podol, Chrudim District: white, grey-white, rosy [e]
Marquetry (also spelled as marqueterie; from the French marqueter, to variegate) is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns or designs. The technique may be applied to case furniture or even seat furniture, to decorative small objects with smooth, veneerable surfaces or to freestanding pictorial ...
Hatching (French: hachure) is an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing (or painting or scribing) closely spaced parallel lines.When lines are placed at an angle to one another, it is called cross-hatching.
Paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design, which can produce patterns similar to smooth marble or other kinds of stone. [1] The patterns are the result of color floated on either plain water or a viscous solution known as size, and then carefully transferred to an absorbent surface, such as paper or fabric. Through several centuries ...
A clay marble, found in a field in the East Midlands An orange and white toothpaste marble Glass marbles from Indonesia A green glass marble in India. There are various types of marbles, and names vary from locality to locality. [24] Aggie – made of agate (aggie is short for agate) or glass resembling agate, with various patterns like in the ...
Hatch (e-commerce company), an ecommerce platform based in Amsterdam; Hatch Ltd, an engineering and development consulting company based in Canada; Hatch-class lifeboat, formerly operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution of the United Kingdom and Ireland; Mini Hatch, a supermini car
The color pattern is darker along the top and lighter below. [6] It was once believed that marbled lungfish are obligate air breathers, however, research published in 2007 suggests that the marbled lungfish primarily relies on aquatic respiration unless restricted by certain ecological or physiological conditions.