Word: contouring
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When SEAC has gained enough experience, the bureau hopes that it will do many important seeing jobs faster and better than humans can. One project is to make it produce contour maps from air photographs. It will do such monotonous jobs 24 hours a day without getting tired or bored. Human factors will have little effect on the seeing-eye computer. It may even learn in time to search through a rogues' gallery and pick out a single face. It will judge by the stable features and will not be misled by beards, scars or other embellishments...
...Matisse used to design the outline of a chair, then design the colors, and fill them in. Or he designed the color and then the chair. But one comes after the other. Moi, je fais tout d'un coup [I do everything at once]-contour, matiere, surface, color, line, all in the same stroke." Thus Paris Painter Pierre Soulages, at 37 a roaring commercial success and winner of several international art prizes, describes the effort behind his huge, bulking canvases-massive, broad strokes of dark paint laid on the light background with brush, board, strips of leather and cardboard...
Orval Faubus entered his second-floor study bent double, hands clutching his abdomen. He greeted a visitor perfunctorily, collapsed into a contour chair, groaning in the agony of too much sweet corn and too many sweet potatoes the night before. His wife popped anxiously into the room, carrying a tray; Faubus peered distastefully at the stewed chicken and rice. "Put that rice in a bowl," snapped he, "so I can put some milk on it." But this, protested Alta Faubus, was what the doctor had ordered. "I don't care!" cried Faubus...
...back that holds you up for the leisurely joy of reading or eating breakfast in bed. And the high footboard that fences the covers in. As for the overstuffed chairs: I'll vote for them over the scratchy straw, sagging canvas and thin veneer of today's contour sitting devices. I'd like to know whose odd contours shaped them...
Breaking the Complex. Almost as a matter of course, Joe joined the F.F.A. when he entered high school in Gainesboro. Under his vocational agriculture teacher, Robert ("Woofie") Fox, Joe began studying the schoolbook side of modern farming: crop rotation, contour plowing, terracing, grass and grain mixtures for good cover crops, soil testing, plant foods, livestock bacteria, basic veterinary practice. In shop class, Joe learned how to build hog feeders and cattle chutes, how to wire a barn for electricity, how to hang gates, how to solder and weld, and how to care for his machines. (Lesson I: "Grease is cheaper...