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Anything carved in low relief
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anaglyph
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A decorative ornament worked in low relief or bas relief, such as a piece of cameo jewelry. 2 A matched pair of images designed to produce a three-dimensional effect when viewed using spectacles that have usually one red and one bluish-green lens, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Anaglyph (Greek ana + gluphein - "to carve") may refer to: Anaglyph 3D , a method of encoding a three-dimensional image in a single picture by superimposing a pair of pictures Ornament (art) carved in low relief
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. moving or still pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed anything carved in low relief
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anaglyph \An"a*glyph\, n. [Gr. ? wrought in low relief, ? embossed work; ? + ? to engrave.] Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.
Usage examples of anaglyph.
The fusion of images in this anaglyph requires a memory of 10,000 picture elements.
In the fore part of which, betwixt the seuen pilastrels, there were appointed little slender Pillers wrought about with leaues, copies, heades with haire like leaues, boyes their hippes and legges proportioned into brawnches, Birdes and copies, and vesselles full of flowers, with other woonderfull inuentions and deuises, from the top to the bottome of the Anaglyph, as if they had grown out of the foundation, making and diuiding in sunder the spaces, their chapters were wrought of a fashion answerable to the rest.
Vpon the other Anaglyph, I did behold a merrie and pleasant maiesticall personage, like a yoong fat boye, crowned with two folding serpents, one white, and the other blacke, tied into a knot.
It was a long, low hall, hollowed, like all the rest, in the heart of the mountain, open in front, and adorned with frescoes and anaglyphs of curious design.
The fusion of images in this anaglyph requires a memory of 10,000 picture elements.
And Phaniol saw that the barge was wrought of ebony fretted with curious anaglyphs, and carved with luxurious forms of gods and beasts, of satyrs and goddesses and women.