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Quilt or quilted maple refers to a type of figure in maple wood. It is seen on the tangential plane ( flat-sawn ) and looks like a wavy "quilted" pattern, often similar to ripples on water. The highest quality quilted figure is found in the Western Big Leaf species of maple. [ 1 ]
Backside view of a violin. Flame maple (tiger maple), also known as flamed maple, curly maple, ripple maple, fiddleback or tiger stripe, is a feature of maple in which the growth of the wood fibers is distorted in an undulating chatoyant pattern, producing wavy lines known as "flames".
Bird's eye maple may be expensive, up to several times the cost of ordinary hardwood. It is used in refined specialty products, such as in automobile trim, both in solid form and veneer, boxes and bowls for jewelry, thin veneer, humidors, canes, furniture inlays, handles, guitars, bowed instruments, custom rifle stocks and pool cues are popular uses.
From top to bottom, the image displays transverse, radial and tangential sections. The adjacent image shows light passing through the specimens. Note, while the title of the image in the original book is "Acer Saccharinum", sugar maple is actually Acer saccharum. Acer saccharinum is a different species better known as silver leaf maple.
Wikipedia:Picture of the day is an image which is automatically updated each day with an image from the list of featured pictures. The {{ POTD }} template produces the image shown above. Category:Wikipedia Picture of the day lists the different templates that can be used.
From this point, image will be taken as synonymous with "media file". thumb An image thumbnail: the display of an image at reduced size, however generated. "Thumbs" are a subset of "images". image page Any page within the Image: namespace (often called an "image description page"). Clicking any image will normally take the reader to its image page.
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This vector image is generated programmatically from geometry defined in File:Flag of Canada (construction sheet - leaf geometry).svg. Author: The original uploader was Doodledoo at Wikimedia Commons. Updated image provided by MapGrid. Other versions: Maple leaf -- Liberal.svg Maple leaf -- Conservative.svg Maple leaf -- NDP.svg Maple leaf ...