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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To represent by anamorphosis; distort into a monstrous projection.

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  • Below is the similar anamorphose map for 1950 and 2025, as projected in 1993

    Archive 2005-12-01 Sun Bin 2005

  • Below is the similar anamorphose map for 1950 and 2025, as projected in 1993

    Map: world population and GDP scaled maps Sun Bin 2005

  • It should also be noted that although using cylindrical lenses or prisms are the two main approaches used to anamorphose an image, some alternative approaches using hybrid cylindrical / prism designs have also been developed.

    optics.org all content 2009

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