optical effects
Example Sentences
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The enhanced clarity is why VistaVision hung on longer with the makers of old-school optical effects, serving as a workhorse for the original “Star Wars” trilogy and other pictures into the 21st century.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
"This development leap enables new optical effects and application concepts thanks to the 3D aspect."
From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024
Though halos are not uncommon in the UK, the combination of other optical effects is more unusual.
From BBC • May 29, 2023
Light entering a medium with a negative index of refraction, on the contrary, would bend backward, creating unexpected optical effects, such as a straw appearing to lean the wrong way.
From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2022
Hitherto it had been supposed that double stars were mere optical effects.
From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Williams, Henry Smith
