anamorphosis

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While it seems like magic, it uses anamorphosis, a very simple painting technique that has been used by old masters since the 15th century, mixed with the technology in the ...

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  1. noun An image that appears distorted unless it is viewed from a special angle or with a special instrument.
  2. noun The production of such an image.
  3. noun Evolutionary increase in complexity of form and function.

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  • Tarkovsky 's films is the heavy gravity of Earth that seems to exert its pressure on time itself, generating an effect of temporal anamorphosis that extends time well beyond what we perceive as justified by the requirements of narrative movement ... —  GreenCine Daily
  • While it seems like magic, it uses anamorphosis, a very simple painting technique that has been used by old masters since the 15th century, mixed with the technology in the ... —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • Moreover, he confined this evolution in the strictest possible way to each group; he did not believe that what was called anamorphosis--the transition of a lower type into a higher type--ever occurred. —  Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work
  • Moreover, he confined this evolution in the strictest possible way to each group; he did not believe that what was called anamorphosis -- the transition of a lower type into a higher type -- ever occurred. —  Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work
  • Gasteropoda, and Lamellibranchiata, be only modifications by excess or defect of the parts of a definite archetype, then, I think, it follows as a necessary consequence, that no anamorphosis takes place in this group. —  Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work
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  1. New Latin anamorphōsis, from Late Greek anamorphoun, to transform : Greek ana-, ana- + Greek morphē, shape.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀναμόρφωσις, a forming anew, from ἀναμορφόειν, form anew, transform, from ἀνα, again, + μορφόειν, form, from μορφή, a form: see morphology.
 

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