Definitions
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- noun A
screen through which many closely spaces parallel pins have been inserted, used to make an impression of a three-dimensional object. Used as a novelty and in animated film entertainment.
Etymologies
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Examples
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La coppia restò unita per la vita, ed insieme sviluppò un nuovo stile di animazione utilizzando il pinscreen.
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UPDATE: Yesterday was getting a little late, so I forgot to add that Feuilleton links to several more pinscreen animations.
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The pinscreen consists of a white screen pierced by hundreds of thousands of pins that can slide back and forth, each in its own hole.
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Il pinscreen è uno schermo bianco costellato da centinaia di migliaia di perni che possono scorrere avanti e indietro, ognuno nel suo foro.
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The pair formed a life long partnership and together developed a new style of animation using a pinscreen.
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have cultivated many thousands of nanocrystals in what looks like a pinscreen or "pin art" on silicon, a step toward reliable mass production of semiconductor nanowires for millionths-of-a-meter-scale devices such as sensors and lasers.
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"The pair formed a life-long partnership and together developed a new style of animation using a pinscreen, a white board containing thousands of pins whose shadows when pushed out of the board provide the grey tones required to create a picture."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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"The pair formed a life-long partnership and together developed a new style of animation using a pinscreen, a white board containing thousands of pins whose shadows when pushed out of the board provide the grey tones required to create a picture."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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UPDATE: Ieri s’è fatto tardi ed ho scordato di aggiungere che Feuilleton ha i link ad altre animazioni in pinscreen.
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