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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
Wallpaper enjoyed a huge boom in popularity in the nineteenth century, seen as a cheap and very effective way of brightening up cramped and dark rooms in working-class areas. It became almost the norm in most areas of middle-class homes, but remained relatively little used in public buildings and offices, with patterns generally being avoided ...
An example of a full wallpaper name in Hermann-Mauguin style (also called IUCr notation) is p31m, with four letters or digits; more usual is a shortened name like cmm or pg. For wallpaper groups the full notation begins with either p or c, for a primitive cell or a face-centred cell; these are explained below.
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Visitors are immersed in the Light Sculpture at teamLab Borderless, Azabudai Hills, Minato City, Tokyo, Japan (2024).. TeamLab is an international art collective, an interdisciplinary group of artists formed in 2001 in Tokyo, Japan.
Iris versicolor is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant, growing 10–80 cm (4–31 in) high.() It tends to form large clumps from thick, creeping rhizomes.The unwinged, erect stems generally have basal leaves that are more than 1 cm (1 ⁄ 2 in) wide.
'Blue flowers/patterns') covers a wide range of white pottery and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment, generally cobalt oxide. The decoration was commonly applied by hand, originally by brush painting, but nowadays by stencilling or by transfer-printing , though other methods of application have also been used.
The male has a yellow crown, dark emerald-green throat and yellow collar between the throat and its blackish upper breast feathers. It is adorned with a pair of long black tail wires and large flank plumes. The male has the long tail feather while the female does not. The female is a comparatively drab maroonish-brown bird.