Flash phenomenon

Usage examples of afterimage.

A rapid glance before stashing them left me with an afterimage of an organization called the Human Rights Federation, with a stack of letterhead sponsors, each with a string of impressive-looking letters after his or her name: businesspeople, a few token trade-unionists, academics, engineers -- your standard-issue New Money think-tank front.

Peering through green-purple afterimages, the Greek saw it had taken Avshar with it.

The fire hurt his eyes, creating afterimages that disoriented him and made him feel as if he were again in astral form.

Unlike the previously described technique of attending to a visually induced afterimage, this method entails mentally creating and sustaining an image of a physical object, based either on seeing it or on hearing of its characteristics.

Roberts with a brief afterimage of something vaguely shaped like a camera, that had apparently recorded what had happened so far, and was now pulled inside as the roboid police came dangerously close.

She shook her head and there was an afterimage of black hair over the blond, a dark ghost over all that bloodstained white.

There was an afterimage of confusion that cut off suddenly, leaving me alone again and off-balance inside my thoughts.

Occasionally the darkness was punctuated by a blinding flash of lightning, bringing every detail into sharp focus, leaving dazzling afterimages in the darkness.

The fight was a blur of interacting programs and progressed with a speed that left his head spinning, aswirl with images and afterimages.

They did not seem to notice him, but went their apparently random, zigzagging ways, leaving an afterimage burned across his bemused gaze like particles mapped on their path through a bubble chamber.

For instance, sometimes (usually after a very brief stimulus) you'll see a positive afterimage.

He saw the faint afterimage of Zeth's body disintegrating into a fading silhouette as the stellar energy ripped across Carida.

Those riders seemed journeyed from a legendary world and they left behind a strange tainture like an afterimage on the eye and the air they disturbed was altered and electric.

I wondered how she would report this one—and if she would mention my prismatic afterimage as I trumped out.