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  2. Imigongo - Wikipedia

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    Imigongo (Kinyarwanda: [i.mí.ɡôː.ŋɡo]) is an art form popular in Rwanda traditionally made by women using cow dung.Often in the colors black, white and red, popular themes include spiral and geometric designs that are painted on walls, pottery, and canvas.

  3. Battenburg markings - Wikipedia

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    A Volvo pump truck from South Australian Fire with red-and-yellow Battenburg markings. Battenburg markings or Battenberg markings [a] are a pattern of high-visibility markings developed in the United Kingdom in the 1990s and currently seen on many types of emergency service vehicles in the UK, Crown dependencies, British Overseas Territories and several other European countries including the ...

  4. Barcode - Wikipedia

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    A UPC-A barcode. A barcode or bar code is a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable form.Initially, barcodes represented data by varying the widths, spacings and sizes of parallel lines.

  5. J. & G. Meakin - Wikipedia

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    J & G Meakin had close family and corporate affiliations to the potteries Johnson Brothers, and Alfred Meakin Ltd, which explains why many patterns are similar, if not almost exactly the same. There was a takeover by J. & G. Meakin in 1968 of Midwinter Pottery.

  6. Shading - Wikipedia

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    Light patterns, such as objects having light and shaded areas, help when creating the illusion of depth on paper. [2] [3] There are various techniques of shading, including cross hatching, where perpendicular lines of varying closeness are drawn in a grid pattern to shade an area. The closer the lines are together, the darker the area appears.

  7. Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    The Caribbean (/ ˌ k ær ɪ ˈ b iː ən, k ə ˈ r ɪ b i ən / KARR-ib-EE-ən, kə-RIB-ee-ən, locally / ˈ k ær ɪ b i æ n / KARR-ib-ee-an; [4] Spanish: el Caribe; French: les Caraïbes; Dutch: de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea [5] and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea ...

  8. List of tartans - Wikipedia

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    Image Association Origin Notes House of Stuart/Stewart: Highland clans, Scottish royalty: The Royal Stuart (or Royal Stewart) tartan, first published in 1831, is the best-known tartan of the royal House of Stuart/Stewart, and is one of the most recognizable tartans.

  9. Op art - Wikipedia

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    Here, black and white wavy lines are close to one another on the canvas surface, creating a volatile figure-ground relationship. Getulio Alviani used aluminum surfaces, which he treated to create light patterns that change as the watcher moves (vibrating texture surfaces).