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  2. Killing cone - Wikipedia

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    Killing cones are used to facilitate the slaughter of poultry, normally chicken, ducks, or geese. [1] Such cones come in a number of sizes to accommodate different-sized birds. The cone functions by holding a bird in place - a captive bird can be placed head first into the funnel so that the animal's head hangs down through the small part of ...

  3. Chicken hypnotism - Wikipedia

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    Thomas B. Hess, art critic and long time editor of ARTnews, used chicken hypnotism to describe Barnett Newman's iconic "zip" paintings in a March 1950 review: "There were some terrific optical illusions: if you stared closely at the big red painting with the thin white stripe, its bottom seemed to shoot out at your ankles, and the rectangular ...

  4. Comb (anatomy) - Wikipedia

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    Comb shape varies considerably depending on the breed or species of bird. Of the many types and shapes seen in chicken cocks the principal ones are: [2]: 499 [3] the single comb, extending in a single line from the top of the base of the beak to the back of the head.

  5. Line drawing - Wikipedia

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    Line drawing may mean: Line art, a style of two-dimensional art featuring only two, unshaded, contrasting colors; Technical line drawing, simple two-dimensional ...

  6. Contour drawing - Wikipedia

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    Contour drawing is an essential technique in the field of art because it is a strong foundation for any drawing or painting; it can potentially modify a subjects’ form through variation within the lines. It is widely accepted among schools, art institutions, and colleges as an effective training aid and discipline [3] for beginner artists. In ...

  7. Conic section - Wikipedia

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    A conic is the curve obtained as the intersection of a plane, called the cutting plane, with the surface of a double cone (a cone with two nappes).It is usually assumed that the cone is a right circular cone for the purpose of easy description, but this is not required; any double cone with some circular cross-section will suffice.

  8. Cone tracing - Wikipedia

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    Cone tracing solves certain problems related to sampling and aliasing, which can plague conventional ray tracing. However, cone tracing creates a host of problems of its own. For example, just intersecting a cone with scene geometry leads to an enormous variety of possible results. For this reason, cone tracing has remained mostly unpopular.

  9. Broiler - Wikipedia

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    Magazines for the poultry industry existed at this time. [4] [5] A crossbred variety of chicken was produced from a male of a naturally double-breasted Cornish strain, and a female of a tall, large-boned strain of white Plymouth Rocks. [6] This first attempt at a meat crossbreed was introduced in the 1930s and became dominant in the 1960s.