"You already see the mosaic effect of how fire sweeps through a forest," he said.

Ms. Martone's technique of outlining every form and modulating every highlight and shadow yields a mosaic effect that homogenizes the subjects and their surroundings.

The mosaic effect in this case was created by adding amounts of milk, or sometimes none, to cups of black coffee.

A colored wheel had been painted on the ceiling with little squares and triangles of different colors giving a mosaic effect.

Still, the mosaic effect - evoking urban graffiti as well as the repetitive patterns of quilts - combines visual forms associated with black experience.

The album cover features horizontal photographs of singer/guitarist Jack Hues and bassist Nick Feldman, with a mosaic effect applied to the pictures.

Zooming in too tightly creates a blocky, mosaic effect that one often sees on television when one of Jerry Springer's guests decides to reveal an intimate tattoo.

Vector editors are ideal for solid crisp lines seen in line art, poster, woodcut ink effects, and mosaic effects.

The presence of a series of nearly homogeneous kaolin areas, linked together in zones, creates a mosaic effect.

Ms. Crichton has described the series in terms of a "mosaic" effect.