Anamorphosis

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Anamorphosis is a distorted projection that requires the viewer to occupy a specific vantage point, use special devices, or both to view a recognizable image. It is used in painting, photography, sculpture and installation art, toys, and film special effects.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Anamorphosis”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Adriaan P. Goddijnde:Benutzer:Stefan Kühn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.