Meaning of groundplan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A diagram showing the physical layout of a set, especially the placement of structures on the stage, as opposed to items on the walls or suspended from the ceiling.
2. A diagram, usually to scale, showing the layout of the ground level of a building or other physical structure; floorplan.
3. A framework or pattern showing the form of something, without all the details.
4. A hypothetical anatomical form from which members of a clade are adaptations.

Examples

“In some cases, coordination between the lighting and scene designer may result⟳ in a preliminary scenic groundplan that indicates not only all of the scenic and masking information, but temporary lighting positions as well.”

“You must learn⟳ to be ingenious in arranging groundplans. Always avoid⟳ the dull and trite—what may be called the no-room: that bare, three-walled room without architectural jogs for relief; that room with a routine selection and placement of furniture; that room with doors placed in balanced positions in the walls. New ideas about illustrating the action will present⟳ themselves to both you and the actors if you think⟳ and feel⟳ freshly about what makes up a groundplan.”

“It is also a tool for communication, both to your actors and your audience, because the way in which the groundplan shapes the space reveals much about the how the director and designers view⟳ the possible uses of the space, its owner(s), and its purpose. The groundplan provides you with the opportunity to create⟳ a variety of physical relationships among the characters onstage and shapes the possible patterns of movement that the characters might follow⟳ during the action.”

“Another method of recording blocking is to use⟳ a groundplan and numbered movements tracking sheet (see⟳ Figure⟳ 8.3).”

“Here the destruction is even more complete⟳, and it was very difficult to trace the original groundplan.”

“An example of the groundplan arrangement of boreholes in a multi-row curtain is pictured in Fig. 3.99.”

“Roriczer begins, “If you wish⟳ to draw⟳ the groundplan for a pinnacle, according to the stonemason's art and with the correct⟳ geometry, then begin⟳ by drawing a square, as it is shown here with the letters a, b, c, d.””

“A certain groundplan of Human Nature and Life began to fashion itself in me ; wondrous enough, now when I look⟳ back on it ; for my whole Universe, physical and spiritual, was as yet a Machine ! However, such a conscious, recognised groundplan, the truest I had, was beginning to be there, and by additional experiments might be corrected and indefinitely extended.'”

“Remarkedly enough, the frame or the groundplan as the innate program⟳ appears to be one of the central themes of cypbernetics and of the recently emerging compuational paradigm.”

“The specific design⟳ or groundplan may be new, but the building blocks were already there for the poet to assemble.”

“What they produced was in fact limited; they acknowledged that their work⟳ was both tentative and only a groundplan.”

“One Sonata Form⟳ in Mahler's Narrative Imagination This movement . . . has the same scaffolding, the same basic groundplan that you'll find⟳ in the works of Mozart and, on a grander scale, of Beethoven.”

“A somewhat detailed, and largely innovative reconstruction of the groundplan of hexapod integumental structure⟳ has been worked out by Kukalova-Peck (1991, 1994, 1997, this volume).”

“This figure⟳ emphasizes the dislocation of the pigment bands and presents the so-called nymphalid groundplan: the set⟳ of pattern elements out of which butterflies build⟳ their wing patterns (Nijhout 1991). The groundplan thus consists of eight parallel series of pattern elements: one for each band of each of the three symmetry systems, a row of border⟳ ocelli, and a set⟳ of submarginal bands. Each wing cell has a representative of each of these pattern elements so the overall groundplan can be viewed as a serial repetition of the same set⟳ of pattern elements.”

“His groundplan/divergence method was used by other students and workers (e.g., Mickel 1962; Scora 1967; and Fryxell 1971) and represented the principal thrust of cladistics among botanists at that time.”

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