They are starkly simple, restrained in colour and intense in mood as the artist sought to make spiritual revelations a visual reality.

Others come in search of closure, to try to integrate the visual reality of the site with their disbelief that this could have happened.

"That's why we have made the inn such a visual reality," says Mr. Walsh.

Gone are the pixelated, blurred approximations of visual reality, at least from high end models.

Depth of field, lens focal length, soft focus, white balance, motion capture, etc., all create new visual "realities."

It's only visual reality, but give them time.

Everyone merges individual memories with the visual reality of the 97 metal braziers that illuminate the central spine of the rivers.

In the words of Martin's biographer William Feaver, he "turned literary references to visual reality".

The "old" data are representations of visual reality and human experience, and the "new" data is numerical data.

So our insistence on visual reality makes the world duller than it really is.