anamorphic
adjective
Examples of anamorphic in a Sentence
Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Dec. 2022
Displaying anamorphic, chalk forms made of CNC Steel with a powder coating, the sculptures are made specifically for MDD.
DESIGN COMMISSION 2023 BY LARA BOHINC
Miami Design District has awarded designer Lara Bohinc the 2023 Miami Design District Annual Design Commission.
—Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
This kind of direction-dependent, or anamorphic, demagnification forms the basis of our high-NA system.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2023
New faculty includes prolific television director Marta Cunningham (Modern Love) while equipment partnerships include supplying gear like Orion anamorphic lenses to students.
—Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
The optics manufacturer Carl Zeiss has made a herculean effort to design and manufacture an anamorphic lens with the specifications required for our new machine.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2023
It was shot with anamorphic lens and boasts a glossy cinematography, as well as high production values.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
The list of exhibitors has since expanded, with anamorphic lens provider Vantage now attending with new products to hawk, while LED gear house Cream Source has become an all the more recent addition – reflecting the growing importance of digital production.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
Steve Pauley makes stone sculptures whose anamorphic engravings can be discerned only when light is cast on them to reflect the images on adjacent surfaces.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
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Word History
probably borrowed from French anamorphique, derivative (by analogy with other derivatives with -morphique -morphic) of anamorphose "anamorphosis (image produced by a distorting optical system)," borrowed from New Latin anamorphosis, probably from Greek ana- ana- + -morphōsis (as in metamórphōsis "transformation, metamorphosis")
Note: The New Latin word anamorphosis in reference to optical distortion was apparently introduced by the German Jesuit scientific writer Gaspar Schott (1608-66) in his Magia universalis naturae et artis (Würzburg, 1657), p. 100 ff.
1875, in the meaning defined above
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