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Six example sentences with flatness, each labelled with its topic.
Modernist painters embraced the flatness of the canvas instead of pretending a window opened onto a distant field.
Art
A long lens compresses the hills into a strange flatness, as though the ridges were cut from paper.
Photography
Early arcade sprites owed their charm to sheer flatness, since every character was a picture pinned to the screen.
Gaming
The studio kept the flatness of hand drawn cels on purpose, refusing the depth that computer rendering would have added.
Movies
Flat design leaned into the flatness of the screen, stripping away the fake shadows and bevels of earlier interfaces.
Technology
The facade's flatness is total, a single sheet of pale stone with no cornice or ledge to cast a shadow.
Architecture
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