Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Relating to, having, or producing different optical imaging effects along mutually perpendicular radii: an anamorphic lens.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or resulting from anamorphism.
Wiktionary
- adj. producing various optically distorted images
- adj. of or relating to the gradual evolution of different types of organism
WordNet 3.0
- adj. pertaining to gradual evolution from one type of organism to another
- adj. pertaining to a kind of distorting optical system
Etymologies
- ana- + -morph + -ic.
Examples
“Twentieth Century Fox presents the film on Blu-ray in anamorphic widescreen (2.35: 1) and in 5.1 DTS-HD.”
“Universal presents the film on Blu-ray (no less) in anamorphic widescreen and DTS-HD 5.1 surround.”
AMERICAN PIE Presents: The Book of Love Blu-ray Review – Collider.com
“The film is presented in anamorphic widescreen (1.78: 1) and in 2.0 mono.”
KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS Special Edition DVD Review – Collider.com
“The 5-disc set will include all 17 first season episodes of the show in anamorphic widescreen with Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround audio.”
“Funny stuff, and in anamorphic widescreen to boot!”
“The films got remastered in anamorphic format for the set!”
“The mind-bending images are inspired by anamorphism, a centuries-old technique used in frescoes and other drawings to create the illusion of height and width (as such, 3D street painting is sometimes called anamorphic or illusionistic).”
“Summit’s DVD presents the film in anamorphic widescreen (1.78: 1) and in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround.”
“The PSP has a much bigger screen, in anamorphic format btw, that I’m sure is sharper than Apple’s.”
“Vertigo wasn’t available in anamorphic video until this set …”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anamorphic’.
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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Film and Cinematography
A list of terms used in cinematography
anamorphic, a and b rolls, academy aperture, academy leader, answer print, married print, filmography, apple box, aspect ratio, backwind, camera-stylo, barndoors and 49 more...
rolig Very interesting, and thanks, Sumit, for supplying the gallery. One of my favorite public sculptures in Ljubljana is the monument to the Slovene novelist and playwright Ivan Cankar, which stands in front of the Cankar Cultural Center. Designed by the sculptor Slavko Tihec, it is in the shape of a cube. On the front and the back, if you look at it directly, you see what looks like wavy vertical grooves, but if you look at it slightly from an angle, you see the writer's face. I have always thought this was a brilliant way to present in bronze the idea of reading: you don't always get the meaning until you find the right angle from which to approach it. Jan 17, 2009
sumit An anamorphic image is one that can only be interpreted when viewed from a particular angle or through a transforming optical device like a mirror. Gallery at the link. Jan 17, 2009
hernesheir A method of creating a wide screen image with standard film, using a special lens on the camera and projector that compresses the width of the image that is exposed on the film and then expands it when projected.
Jan 17, 2009