In the triplex ocies, the threefold battle lines that the Romans have, where their cohorts, their individual units, are right in this kind of checkerboard formation.
I could imagine playing those cells a movie of, I don't know, a checkerboard going where every square on the checkerboard goes from white to black to gray.
This is what led us to create our signature checkerboard pattern, which we created to help us put a system of order on the often unpredictable, continually changing nature of our raw-material supply.
Our country is actually a checkerboard of communities that are rising from the bottom up because they built complex adaptive coalitions, and other communities that are collapsing because they can't.
So instead of our kids learning with a checkerboard of faces on Zoom, they're actually putting on a VR headset and going to the moon to learn about the lunar landing.
If you've ever seen that old optical illusion of a checkerboard and shadow, this is exactly the type of thing you can actively train your brain to get better at identifying, mostly just through practice.
As the long stretches of land were cleared or prepared for the plow, they were laid out like checkerboards into squares of forty, eighty, one hundred sixty, or more acres, each the seat of a homestead.