1.
a. An image that appears distorted unless it is viewed from a special angle or with a special instrument.
b. The production of such an image.
2. Evolutionary increase in complexity of form and function.
". . . I stumbled into a dead end that angled curiously backward like a broken finger, and found myself gazing into the window of a shop unlike any other I had ever seen, for it contained a dazzling assortment of anamorphoses, some several hundred years old. The anamorphosis, like Nabokov's nonnons, needs to be reflected on the curved surface of a conic or tubular mirror in order to be seen."
--Rikki Ducornet, The Monstrous and the Marvelous
a. An image that appears distorted unless it is viewed from a special angle or with a special instrument.
b. The production of such an image.
2. Evolutionary increase in complexity of form and function.
". . . I stumbled into a dead end that angled curiously backward like a broken finger, and found myself gazing into the window of a shop unlike any other I had ever seen, for it contained a dazzling assortment of anamorphoses, some several hundred years old. The anamorphosis, like Nabokov's nonnons, needs to be reflected on the curved surface of a conic or tubular mirror in order to be seen."
--Rikki Ducornet, The Monstrous and the Marvelous
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