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  • noun Plural form of after-image.

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Examples

  • Mr. Jones sought, he said, to overload viewers with "photo cut-outs and stroboscopic color combined to induce retinal after-images and create unique color sequences."

    When Video Frightened the Radio Star Bruce Bennett 2011

  • Magic Lantern is a dizzying light show of after-images spun from simple projections of coloured circles.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • The effect was literally blinding when Fukasawa lit up the Swarovski Crystal Palace in London during Design Week last year by studding the route of the ‘after-images’ with, what else, a line of Swarovski crystals.

    Adele Chong | Inhabitat 2008

  • This was indeed the blink hole; there were still mental after-images of the hole itself.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

  • This was indeed the blink hole; there were still mental after-images of the hole itself.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

  • At the age of 22, Sir Isaac Newton nearly blinded himself by staring at the sun in a mirror because he wanted to study the after-images it left on his retinas.

    Lee Schneider: Oprah Backlash in Newsweek 2009

  • It is significant that foreign portrayals of the Holocaust concern themselves overwhelmingly with images from the Nazi period, whereas Israeli cinema deals primarily with the after-images.

    Filmmakers, Israeli. 2009

  • Despite its age, this remains a useful literature review, especially because it covers not only mental imagery in the narrower sense in which the term is usually used today (what Richardson calls “memory imagery”), but also other more or less distantly related quasi-perceptual phenomena such as eidetic imagery, hypnagogic imagery, hallucinations, and after-images.

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • Those after-images usually go away after a few seconds.

    Franklin Avenue 2009

  • This was indeed the blink hole; there were still mental after-images of the hole itself.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

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