Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See blueprint.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.
Wiktionary
- n. An early photographic process employing paper sensitized with a cyanide.
- n. A photographic print produced by means of this process.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.
Examples
“She made many of the images in "Radioactive" using a process called cyanotype printing, in which a drawing is, through a chemical process that involves sunlight, turned into a kind of glowing negative of the original.”
“Other antiquated methods, such as cyanotype and gum bichromate, will be introduced during a course titled”
“The cyanotype, a camera-less photographic technique that uses the sun's UV rays and results in blue prints, figures prominently in Radioactive's aesthetic.”
“Created by the Parsons students, the Radioactive website allows users to experience the exhibition through an atom animation, a game that offers a peak into the life of Marie Curie, and a "make-your-own-cyanotype" feature using images from the Library's Digital Gallery.”
“At the morning event I met Sian Hughes, a fellow textile artist, who sensibly stayed dry in Edinburgh for the afternoon and, among other things, went to Alien Surfaces to see the one cyanotype I had made for that show.”
“One of the baskets in the post below will be on show together with lots of Mobius scarves and wristbands, Cyberjewels, cyanotype scarves and brooches, felted hats & bags, nuno felt scarves, assorted beaded and felted jewellery and felt sculpture - and that's just my stand!”
“This process is also known as “cyanotype”, and has been around since the 19th century; you should be able to find books that describe how to do it from scratch, or find kits to make the solution you treat the paper with.”
“Leaving out [Solution] B [ammonia ferric citrate, 45 parts, and water, 100 parts] and replacing it by rain water, this makes also a good solution for the cyanotype.”
“The following process, discovered at the same time as the cyanotype, and termed chrysotype, is thus described by Sir John Herschel:”
“Another, but not quite so effective a manner of sizing although sufficient for the cyanotype, is the following, employed by Mr. Pizzighelli for the paper used in the platinotypic process:”
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qroqqa If a nomenclature of this kind be admitted..the whole class of processes in which cyanogen in its combinations with iron performs a leading part, and in which the resulting pictures are blue, may be designated by this epithet. The varieties of cyanotype processes seem to be innumerate.
—Herschel, 1842, quoted in OED
Late Sunday afternoons, we climbed from the lake bottom, covered with prehistoric ooze, to surface under a billboard on St. Clair Avenue; the tram tracks shining dully under the weak winter sun, or stropped bright under the streetlights, the evening sky purple with cold or cyanotype summer blue, the darkening shapes of the houses against the dissolving bromide of twilight.
—Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces, 1997 Jul 4, 2008