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  2. Photogravure - Wikipedia

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    Photogravure has often been used to print stamps. For example, between 1934 and 1936, stamps of King George V were produced by the British postal service using photogravure. [ 8 ] In the United States, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing began printing stamps in gravure from its own press in 1971.

  3. Heliography - Wikipedia

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    Comparison between the original engraving and the heliography of Joseph Nicephore Niépce. Left: Engraving of Portrait of Georges d'Amboise, 1650 right: Heliography (Heliogravure) of the engraving, 1826. Nicéphore Niépce began experiments with the aim of achieving a photo-etched printmaking technique in 1811.

  4. Set (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    A set of polygons in an Euler diagram This set equals the one depicted above since both have the very same elements.. In mathematics, a set is a collection of different [1] things; [2] [3] [4] these things are called elements or members of the set and are typically mathematical objects of any kind: numbers, symbols, points in space, lines, other geometrical shapes, variables, or even other ...

  5. Pointed set - Wikipedia

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    In the sense of universal algebra, a pointed set is a set together with a single nullary operation:, [a] which picks out the basepoint. [7] Pointed maps are the homomorphisms of these algebraic structures. The class of all pointed sets together with the class of all based maps forms a category.

  6. Félicien Rops - Wikipedia

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    The heliogravure prints gave Rops a greater ability to exhibit subtleties and nuances of light and shadow in the dark, nocturnal images. Apparently La Vengeance d'une Femme (The Vengeance of a Woman) was not reproduced in the heliogravure set. The second, heliogravure set, is referred to as the large boards.

  7. Relative interior - Wikipedia

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    Formally, the relative interior of a set (denoted ⁡ ()) is defined as its interior within the affine hull of . [1] In other words, ⁡ ():= {: > ⁡ ()}, where ⁡ is the affine hull of , and () is a ball of radius centered on . Any metric can be used for the construction of the ball; all metrics define the same set as the relative interior.

  8. Heliograph - Wikipedia

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    Most heliographs of the 19th and 20th centuries were completely manual. [6] The steps of aligning the heliograph on the target, co-aligning the reflected sunbeam with the heliograph, maintaining the sunbeam alignment as the sun moved, transcribing the message into flashes, modulating the sunbeam into those flashes, detecting the flashes at the receiving end, and transcribing the flashes into ...

  9. Helix (stationery company) - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Set of Mathematical Instruments is a set of instruments used by generations of school children in the United Kingdom and around the world in mathematics and geometry lessons. The set is marketed in over 100 countries by Helix. It consists of a metal tin embossed on the front with a drawing of Balliol College and the words 'THE HELIX ...