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Emma Biggs (born 1956) is a London-based mosaic artist and author of a number of standard textbooks on contemporary mosaic practice. Having completed the large public art project, "Made in England", based on the visual culture and ideology of the pottery industry in Stoke-on-Trent (in the English midlands), her work became increasingly concerned with the ceramic industry and its social history.
The herringbone pattern is an arrangement of rectangles used for floor tilings and road pavement, so named for a fancied resemblance to the bones of a fish such as a herring. The blocks can be rectangles or parallelograms. The block edge length ratios are usually 2:1, and sometimes 3:1, but need not be even ratios.
[7] [8] [9] Pictorial evidence of Roman fishing comes from mosaics which show nets. [10] In a parody of fishing, a type of gladiator called retiarius was armed with a trident and a cast net. He would fight against a secutor or the murmillo, who carried a short sword and a helmet with the image of a fish on the front. [11]
These fish are best kept with live or frozen feed and they easily outgrow the tank within eight to ten months. An aquarium with the minimum diameter of 6 by 3.5 feet (1.8 by 1.1 m) and 300 US gallons (1,100 L; 250 imp gal) is suggested as a bare minimum but 400–800 US gallons (1,500–3,000 L; 330–670 imp gal) is the best way to go. [ 9 ]
The Lod Mosaic. The Lod Mosaic is a mosaic floor dated to ca. 300 CE discovered in 1996 in the Israeli town of Lod. Believed to have been created for a private villa, it is one of the largest (180 m 2) and best-preserved mosaic floors uncovered in the country. It depicts land animals, fish and two Roman ships.
A Sama-Bajau fishing vinta in Zamboanga with the characteristic colorful sails (c.1923) A small Sama-Bajau tondaan with sails deployed (c.1904) Two large Moro vinta from Mindanao in the houseboat (palau) configuration (c.1920) [1] The vinta is a traditional outrigger boat from the Philippine island of Mindanao.
The patterns revealed by remote sensing devices are most often mapped and represented using two types of model: (1) collections of discrete patches forming mosaics e.g. as represented in two-dimensional benthic habitat map, or (2) continuously varying gradients in three-dimensional terrain models e.g. in remotely sensed Bathymetric data.
The Big Fish [1] is a printed ceramic mosaic [2] sculpture by John Kindness. The 10-metre-long (33 ft) [3] statue was constructed in 1999 [3] and installed on Donegall Quay in Belfast, Northern Ireland, near the Lagan Lookout and Custom House. [4] Also known as Pat The Fish in reference to visitors from Orkney, Scotland patting the fish for ...