Background Competitive interactions in biological communities can be thought of as giving rise to "assembly rules" that dictate the species that are able to co-exist. Ant communities in tropical canopies often display a particular pattern, an "ant mosaic", in which competition between dominant ant species results in a patchwork of mutually exclusive territories. Although ant mosaics have been w...

As the eld of view of a picture is much smaller than our own visual eld of view, it is common to paste together several pictures to create a panoramic mosaic having a larger eld of view. While scissors and glue are the tools used in lm photography, more sophisticated methods were enabled with digital video. Panoramic mosaics can be created by special devices which rotate around the camera's opt...

The present-day city of Antequera, in the province Malaga, Spain, dominates an extensive territory encompassing numerous archaeological sites from different eras. urban centres Singilia Barba, Anticaria and Aratispi, belong to Roman period, now only offering us two mosaics, a good number rural properties, which most set Antequera mosaics come.
 Within Antequeran mosaic repertoire, geometri...