Pablo Picasso

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

Spanish Painter

Merab Mamardashvili

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Georgian Philosopher

Maryam Mirzakhani

Most problems I work on are related to geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations.

Iranian Mathematician

Refers to actual changes in shape because something physical happened to it.

Physical Force

The term often implies a visible change that might be shocking or noticeable.

Visual Impact

In medical contexts, it suggests a health issue that may need attention.

Medical Concern

Highlights that the deformity has a direct cause, such as disease or injury.

Cause and Effect

In mathematics, it usually involves precise calculations and concepts.

Academic Analysis

Used when materials change shape permanently, not just temporarily.

Beyond Limits

Mostly used in technical or scientific discussions, not in everyday conversations.

Science-specific

In law, 'deformation' implies altering the truth, often with serious consequences.

Legal Context

The term carries a sense of deliberate wrongdoing or manipulation.

Serious Connotation

 We had one person devoted to the tongue for about nine months. He was very popular. Skin another big deal. The skin had to be absolutely accurate. He's also in an old age home, he's in a nursing home around other old people, so he had to look exactly the same as the others. So, lots of work on skin deformation, you can see in some of these cases it works,

Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin...

 They have a sophisticated eye which is the fastest visual system on the planet. They have another set of eyes on the top of their head. We have no idea what they do. They have sensors on their wing. Their wing is covered with sensors, including sensors that sense deformation of the wing.

Michael Dickinson: How a...

 because we've already got them, but to make robots able to face unexpected situations in the real world, so able to go out there. And what makes a robot soft is first of all its compliant body, which is made of materials or structures that can undergo very large deformations,

The incredible potential...

 and more flexible buildings, while high frequencies of motion pose more threat to structures that are shorter and stiffer. Engineers have also devised ways to abosrb shocks and limit deformation using innovative systems. Base isolation uses flexible layers

Why do buildings fall in...

 into heat via friction, or if they stop suddenly, dissipated via deformation. So energy is never destroyed. It's merely transferred into something else like kinetic energy, heat, or even the sound

The Perils of Downhill...

 pushes down on the shoulders and chest the ribcage caves like a squeezed balloon and the neck appears to rise higher from the collapsed collarbones the intentional deformation might seem

Neck Stretching PIPE...

 the ribcage caves like a squeezed balloon and the neck appears to rise higher from the collapsed collarbones the intentional deformation might seem masochistic to outsiders but to the

Why Do These Women...

Brass Shackles PIPE...

 and touch it and feel it to understand it in new ways. Or you can interact through gestures and direct deformations to sculpt digital clay.

Shape-shifting tech will...

 along the eastern seaboard deformations of Canada geese fly overhead every