Word: matrixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge zoning makes strange bedfellows indeed. Across Bow Street from Adams House sits Father Feeney's headquarters and, comfortably alongside it, Matrix Structures Incorporated, designers of a novel geometric Play-dome. In contrast to its neighbor's statuary, Matrix inhabits a neat concrete and glass building where delicate wooden figures are propped, balanced, and hung throughout. Inside, five architects work in a somewhat less ordered atmosphere of strewn blue prints, building materials, and incomplete, matchstick-like models...
...Play-dome is the most recent of Matrix' brain-children. Built on the "geodesic principle" of interlocking triangles, the dome is a hardwood and pressed plastic affair which stands 5 feet high and ten feet across--when the pieces are fitted together properly. The Play-dome is intended for 3 to 13 year olds who, utilizing its vinyl-plastic cover, can make it a clubhouse, cave, mountain, trampoline set, igloo, or inter-stellar space station depending upon the relative imaginations and precocity. "Little girls," claim its inventors, "can use it for their own Teahuose of the August Moon...
...Matrix. The scroll community called itself the people of the New Covenant or New Testament, and some of them may have become Christians after the Romans scattered them from their center on the Dead Sea. But the scholars on the ground agree that they were in no sense Christian or proto-Christian. The Essenes would probably have been the first to cry heresy at the Christian welding of all three messiahs - prophet, priest and king - to have been shocked at Jesus' attitude toward the Law, to have not understood his atoning death...
...that the churches have always taught: that Jesus Christ was a man as well as God - a man of a particular time and place, speaking a specific language, revealing his way in terms of a specific cultural and religious tradition. For Christians who want to know more of that matrix in which their faith was born, the People of the Scrolls are reaching a hand across the centuries...
Actual photographic reproductions of the line is done through a spinning glass matrix disk, bearing the type characters. On one side of this disc is a light, and on the other the film. Once a line is completed, the light starts picking out the right characters on the disc and projecting them on to the film. This is a very rapid process: the disc on the latest Photon machine, the "200" series, spins through eight revolutions per second, picking out one character each time...