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  2. Glossary of pottery terms - Wikipedia

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    An instrument used to measure the hardness of a clay body. Various designs exist. Pinholes Faults in the surface of a ceramic body or glaze which resemble pin pricks. Plasticity The property of clay that allows it to be manipulated and retain its shape without cracking after the shaping force has been removed. Porcelain A vitreous ceramic material.

  3. Creational pattern - Wikipedia

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    For these reasons, creational patterns are more useful than hard-coding behaviors. Creational patterns make design become more flexible. They provide different ways to remove explicit references in the concrete classes from the code that needs to instantiate them. [8] In other words, they create independency for objects and classes.

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  5. History of the concept of creativity - Wikipedia

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    Under medieval Christianity, the Latin "creatio " came to designate God's act of "creatio ex nihilo " ("creation from nothing"); thus "creatio " ceased to apply to human activities. The Middle Ages, however, went even further than antiquity, when they revoked poetry's exceptional status: it, too, was an art and therefore craft and not creativity.

  6. Creativity - Wikipedia

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    The English word "creativity" comes from the Latin terms creare (meaning "to create") and facere (meaning "to make"). Its derivational suffixes also come from Latin. The word "create" appeared in English as early as the 14th century—notably in Chaucer's The Parson's Tale [1] to indicate divine creation. [2]

  7. Creationism by country - Wikipedia

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    "Creation science" could no longer be taught in public schools, and in drafts of the creation science school textbook Of Pandas and People all references to creation or creationism were changed to refer to intelligent design. [8] Proponents of the intelligent design movement organised widespread campaigning to considerable effect.

  8. Algorithmic art - Wikipedia

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    Color Theory, stating that all colors are a combination of the three primary colors (Red, Green and Blue), also helped facilitate the use of colors in visual arts and in the creation of distinct colorful effects. [7] In other words, humans have always found algorithmic ways and discovered patterns to create art. Such tools allowed humans to ...

  9. Co-creation - Wikipedia

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    Co-creation, in the context of a business, refers to a product or service design process in which input from consumers plays a central role from beginning to end. Less specifically, the term is also used for any way in which a business allows consumers to submit ideas, designs or content.