In developer-speak, these are manipulations of objects in the DOM (document object model), the core method of representing content on the web.

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Richard Hamilton of Columbia University had previously realised the usefulness of this heat-flow model but became unstuck when he found that, under this transformation, the object may stretch out to form singularities spikes that could not be easily manipulated into a sphere.

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