His bent was for architectonic construction, and wanting like Morris to incorporate dimensionality in his work, he was one of the earliest American users of the shaped surface.

The rest of the acetabulum is formed by a curved, crescent-moon shaped surface, the lunate surface, where the joint is made with the head of the femur.

Some art and science museums have special devices on display that use magnets to make ferrofluids move around specially shaped surfaces in a fountain show-like fashion to entertain guests.

This type is used to finish irregularly shaped surfaces.

Ms. Hollander directs her interest in creating metaphors for the passage of time to shaped surfaces that are divided into sequential units.

Contour broaches are designed to cut concave, convex, cam-, contoured, and irregular shaped surfaces.

Many grooves and streaks also cover the oddly shaped surface.

The dies are usually flat in shape, but some have a specially shaped surface for specialized operations.

Very complex curvilinear patterns were designed to cover precisely the most awkward and irregularly shaped surfaces".

Active camouflage may now develop using organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and other technologies which allow for images to be projected onto irregularly shaped surfaces.