Cracking Pattern

Cracking pattern may refer to:

  • Cracking pattern (engineering), the fracture surfaces of materials
  • Cracking pattern (painting), the fine pattern of dense cracking formed on the surface of paintings

Famous quotes containing the words cracking and/or pattern:

    Hume’s doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot; the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    We took advantage of [the Indians’] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)