This article is about anamorphosis in art. For other uses, see Anamorphosis (disambiguation).
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Anamorphosis is a distorted projection that requires the viewer to occupy a specific vantage point, use special devices, or both to view a recognizable image. It is used in painting, photography, sculpture and installation, toys, and film special effects. The word is derived from the Greek prefix ana-, meaning "back" or "again", and the word morphe, meaning "shape" or "form". Extreme anamorphosis has been used by artists to disguise caricatures, erotic and scatological scenes, and other furtive images from a casual spectator, while revealing an undistorted image to the knowledgeable viewer.[1]
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patentable because the anamorphoscope had been known for centuries. Anamorphosis had been used in visual media such as Hans Holbein's painting, The Ambassadors...
is also true for all parallelograms, but not for all quadrilaterals. Anamorphosis – artistic applications of affine transformations Affine geometry 3D...
needed] Istvan Orosz tries to combine the technique of anamorphosis with the hidden faces. Anamorphosis is used for those works of art that were made as distorted...
Nationalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University. p. 86. Boyle, Jen E. (2010). Anamorphosis in early modern literature : mediation and affect. Farnham, Surrey, [England]:...
Esperanto, Ludwik Zamenhof, with note in Esperanto in Warsaw, Poland Anamorphosis Bogside Artists Brixton murals Detachment of wall paintings Institute...
process of adding new segments during postembryonic growth is known as anamorphosis, of which there are three types: euanamorphosis, emianamorphosis, and...
clearly visible when reflected in a suitably shaped and positioned mirror. Anamorphosis projecting sculpture into mirrors Contemporary anamorphic artist Jonty...
Richard Fleischner's Chain Link Maze (1978), István Orosz's Atlantis Anamorphosis (2000), Dmitry Rakov's Labyrinth (2003), and drawings by contemporary...
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