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THE SHAPE OF THINGS -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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It is streamlined to move smoothly through the air. With powerful muscles mounted on the lightest possible skeleton, it is the swiftest of animals. All aspects of bird design -- its eggs, its skeleton, its feathers -- combine in a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Throughout nature, basic shapes are shared by natural objects and organisms as diverse as feathers and trees, snails and sunflowers, honeycombs and snowflakes. Form comes from growth or from the way forces affect materials. |