cuboid

• “can get a three-dimensional figure which shall represent the four-dimensional figure which we call the cuboid?”

  The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained

• “Mostly he draws grids, in various sizes, but from time to time his pen draws something else: an outline of his plan for the 40-hectare West Kowloon Cultural District, with its signature arched bridge; a giant cuboid letter "M" that seems apropos of nothing in particular; a rough map of Hong Kong's coastline.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Constructive criticism

• “It changed shape, from spherical to cuboid, then to pyramidal and to rhomboid.”

  365 tomorrows » 2009 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day

• “The assumption is that we will start with a rectangular cuboid of material, and then mill out parts until we get what we need.”

  Using GCAM for GCode 1 « The Half-Baked Maker

• “The set, by the sculptor Antony Gormley, consists of movable cuboid frames which the performers continually reconfigure, the resultant ziggurats sometimes uniting the group, sometimes fracturing it.”

  The Guardian: Political Mother and Babel (words)

• “We have a long friendship: I regard her as the sister I never had; we have worshiped together on several occasions at Makkah, even performing the holy pilgrimage of Umrah around the Kaa'ba, the cuboid building Muslims recognize as the House of God built first by Abraham.”

  The Huffington Post: In Search of the Moderate Muslim: It Takes an Ummah

• “The prize for an individual project was given to Junya Ishigami for an almost invisible cuboid form, which appeared to be made of very thin white thread that, as could just be made out, was supported by even finer filaments; diagonal buttresses, which, like spiders 'webs, could be seen only when the light and observer's angle were right.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Meeting in Space

• “You bust out 'cuboid,' setting all my nerve endings a-tingle, but then use the limp 'perfectly sine regularity' in lieu of say the throbbing 'perfect sinusoidal regularity' or the magnificently necropriapic 'cold dead sinusoidal character'?”

  Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 6: Lord of Chaos (1994)

• “As is suggested by the concept of anti-individualism (“Alienable Dividuals”), Toscano is toying with the idea that we are currently, blindly, acting as portions of a whole -- in an almost geometrical relationship with one another (a notion he develops through four equally participating voices amid cuboid quatrains):”

  Archive 2009-12-01

• “Be there or be an uninspiring equilateral-sided cuboid, eh?”

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