Word: conic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Langton said Memorial Hall's architecture helped shape the plot of the mystery. When she climbed the building's tower and looked down into the five gothic vaults she describes as mathematical curves in three dimensions, from above," Langton said she knew she had to put the conic designs into the book...
...diverting. It is called "Anamorphoses." The word comes from the Greek roots for "shape" and "again," and it applies to images or patterns that look illegible, mere scrawls and smears, until reconstituted-either by looking at them side-on or by glimpsing their reflections in a specially placed cylindrical, conic or pyramidal mirror. The organizers, two young Dutch artist-scholars named Michael Schuyt and Joost Elffers, have come up with examples of almost every imaginable kind of anamorphic illusion. The exhibition is crowded with visual oddities of four centuries, from puzzle landscapes that, seen from the side, turn into religious...