anamorphosis
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Instead, her moves were attuned to an anticipated visual experience—something like the forced perspective of a raked theater stage or the optical illusion of anamorphosis.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016
By the 17th century, anamorphosis and other tricks of perspective were common currency.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, if artists of marked talent ever experimented with what is called cone, cylinder or pyramid anamorphosis, their work has vanished.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sun was setting, and its slanting rays caused the shadow to assume the appearance of an anamorphosis of ludicrous proportions.
From The Ape, the Idiot & Other People by Morrow, W. C.
It may indeed be a matter of very grave consideration whether true anamorphosis ever occurs in the whole animal kingdom.
From Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work by Mitchell, P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers)
Such anamorphoses are "restored" by placing a mirror-surfaced solid, usually a cylinder, at the focus of the design.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus does the present offer us only shapes for optical anamorphoses, and only our spirit is the sublime mirror which transposes them into fair human forms.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich
