The laser induces local thermal gradients in the device, which result in changes to the amount of power that the device uses.

An improvement suggested by O'Gorman and Clowes can be used to detect lines if one takes into account that the local gradient of the image intensity will necessarily be orthogonal to the edge.

If bristles then grow so as to point down the local gradient, they will produce exactly the pair of vortices that were observed (Figure 14d).

He emerged inside a glass-sided bubble, which, although it looked down toward the geometric center of Uttan, seemed because of a warping of the local gravitic gradient to be projecting horizontally out from an immense wall.

It consists of the ratio of the flux to the local gradient in chemical potential.

This makes it possible to freely pivot the craft around in a known local gradient of the magnetic field by only using electrical energy.

Contexts are determined by obtaining the differences of the neighboring samples which represents the local gradient:

The local gradient reflects the level of activities such as smoothness and edginess of the neighboring samples.

His acceleration varies according to local gravitational gradients: not just by thrust but by direction too.

For example, Q1 and Q2 may each be implemented as a pair of paralleled transitors arranged as a cross-coupled quad in a common-centric layout to reduce effects of local gradients in current gain.