Word: grasses
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Take the old Xbox's flagship golf game, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005. Put it side by side with the 2006 version, currently a work in progress. The grass in the old version looks like a green carpet; in the new version, each blade of grass is animated individually and sways to its own rhythm. In the old version, trees make crude, round, blobby shadows; in the new version, each individual leaf has its corresponding individually rendered leaf shadow. The play of light on the water hazards is not readily distinguishable from a filmed image. The fidelity is disconcerting...
Though perched on a busy corner, Beverly Hills Public School, in Sydney's south, has a cozy feel. There are covered walkways throughout. Lots of grass and trees. And many of the classrooms are new and bright. But it's also a typical Australian school in at least one way: staff are fed up with some of the parents. Last term, for instance, an infants teacher on car park duty recorded the details of a father who'd stopped in a no-parking zone. The dad charged at him with a raised fist, letting fly with language that kids would...
From that point on, it seemed that every sinking liner took a sudden, last-minute dive toward my left foot. Racing around the outfield grass in pursuit of the fly balls, I must have appeared something like a chicken without its head...
...front of Peet’s Coffee, on a spring day, it’s impossible to miss the mass of people occupying the wooden benches and the lawn, but not quite as easy to spot the piece of public art which sits in the middle of the grass...
...other words: don’t be afraid to touch, sit, or rest on “Quiet Cornerstone.” It is intended to be as much a part of the contemporary park as the grass or the benches––despite having the added intrigue of the artist’s hand and the historical he has created...