Sketch
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Sketch may refer to:
Drawing and other visual arts
Literature and entertainment
People and characters
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Drawing and other visual arts
- Sketch (drawing)Sketch (drawing)A sketch is a rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not usually intended as a finished work...
, a drawing or other composition that is not intended as a finished work, but a preliminary exploration. - SketchUpSketchUpSketchUp is a 3D modeling program marketed by Google and designed for architectural, civil, and mechanical engineers as well as filmmakers, game developers,...
, a 3D modeling program. - iSketchISketchiSketch is a browser-based drawing game that is similar to Pictionary.Players take turns in drawing a word or words while the other players try to guess. Puzzles come in over twenty languages and over two hundred themes. Difficulty level ranges from easy to expert...
, an online drawing game. - Sketch 3D, a program for producing line drawings of two or three-dimensional solid objects and scenes in the PSTricksPSTricksPSTricks is a set of macros that allow the inclusion of PostScript drawings directly inside TeX or LaTeX code.It is originally the work of Professor Timothy Van Zandt and in recent years it has been maintained by Denis Girou, Sebastian Rahtz and Herbert Voss....
and PGF/TikZPGF/TikZPGF/TikZ is a tandem of languages for producing vector graphics from a geometric/algebraic description. PGF is a lower-level language, while TikZ is a set of higher-level macros that use PGF. The top-level PGF and TikZ commands are invoked as TeX macros, but in contrast with PSTricks, the PGF/TikZ...
formats. - SkencilSkencilSkencil, formerly called Sketch, is a free software vector graphics editor, released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Its first public version, Sketch 0.5.0, was released on October 31, 1998....
, a vector-based graphics program formerly called Sketch and released under the GNU Free License. - Multi-sketchMulti-sketchMulti-sketch is an animation method of story-telling where a sequence of hand-drawn sketches are created simultaneously while narrating it with voice...
, unscripted improv sketching using a Tablet PC or digitizing tablet.
Literature and entertainment
- Sketch (literature)Sketch storyA sketch story, or sketch, is a piece of writing that is generally shorter than a short story, and contains very little, if any, plot. The term was most popularly-used in the late nineteenth century. As a literary work, it is also often referred to simply as the sketch.-Style:A sketch is mainly...
, a literary art form that flourished in the nineteenth century, often plotless, or sometimes a very brief short story of the type today called flash fictionFlash fictionFlash fiction is a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category...
. - Sketch comedySketch comedyA sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...
, a series of short comedic performances called sketches. - Parliamentary sketch, a short journalistic item that describes; often satirically, debates in the UK Houses of ParliamentParliament of the United KingdomThe Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories, located in London...
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People and characters
- Jason Scott SadofskyJason Scott SadofskyJason Scott Sadofsky , more commonly known as Jason Scott, is an American archivist and historian of technology. He is the creator, owner and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which...
, a web site author, filmmaker and artist known under the pseudonym Sketch. - Katie SketchKatie SketchKatie Sketch was the founder and band leader of the indie band The Organ.-Life:Sketch was born in Canada....
, a Canadian musician. - Sketch (comics)Sketch (comics)Sketch is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe. Her first appearance was in Uncanny X-Men #383.-Fictional character biography:...
, a character from the Marvel Comics universe. - Sketch (Skins character)Sketch (Skins character)Lucy is a fictional character in British teen drama series Skins. She is portrayed by Aimee-Ffion Edwards.-Characterization:Sketch is portrayed as an obsessive and somewhat delusional Welsh girl...
, a character in the British series Skins, played by Aimee-Ffion Edwards.
Other
- Daily SketchDaily SketchThe Daily Sketch was a British national tabloid newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton.It was bought in 1920 by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mirror Newspapers but in 1925 Rothermere offloaded it to William and Gomer Berry The Daily Sketch was a British national tabloid newspaper,...
, a defunct British newspaper. - Sketch (restaurant)Sketch (restaurant)sketch is a well known restaurant on 9 Conduit Street, Mayfair, London, England, which opened in 2003. The restaurant is owned by Morad Mazouz and the Head Chef is Pierre Gagnaire...
, a restaurant, bar, and art gallery in central London. - Sketch, a word similar in meaning to "that's bad" or "ugh."
- Sketch (mathematics)Sketch (mathematics)A sketch is a category D, together with a set of limit cones and a set of colimit cones. A model of the sketch in a category C is a functorM:D\rightarrow C...
, a generalization of algebraic theory. - A term for approximate streaming algorithmStreaming algorithmIn computer science, streaming algorithms are algorithms forprocessing data streams in which the input is presented as a sequence ofitems and can be examined in only a few passes...
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