| Now one part of the body was surrendered to the skeuomorph and anon another. |
| To speak somewhat figuratively, heteromorphism is a sort of disease that may attack the skeuomorph or the biomorph. |
| So what exactly is skeuomorphism? The term skeuomorph was originally coined in 1889 to refer to an ornamental design derived from the structure of an earlier form of a particular object. |
| A skeuomorph is a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original. |
| The brown fabric, the smooth finish, and the decoration, all combine to give the effect of a stitched leather vessel, of which this is no doubt a skeuomorph. |
| It is more accurate to refer to it as a visual metaphor that calls to mind a physical skeuomorph without really being one. |
