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Anamorphosis vs Anamorphoscope - What's the difference?

anamorphosis | anamorphoscope |

As nouns the difference between anamorphosis and anamorphoscope

is that anamorphosis is a distorted of an object that may be viewed correctly from a specific angle or with a specific mirror while anamorphoscope is a mirrored device which gives a correct image of an anamorphosis.

anamorphosis

English

Noun

(wikipedia anamorphosis) (anamorphoses)
  • A distorted image of an object that may be viewed correctly from a specific angle or with a specific mirror
  • (biology) a form of limited metamorphosis in some arthropods
  • (mycology, lichenology) an abnormal form of some lichens or fungi that gives the appearance of a different species
  • Derived terms

    * euanamorphosis * hemianamorphosis * teloanamorphosis

    anamorphoscope

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mirrored device which gives a correct image of an anamorphosis.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 280:
  • The classical anamorphoscopes , he went on to explain, were mirrors, cylindrical or conical, usually, which when placed on or otherwise near a deliberately distorted picture, and viewed from the appropriate direction, would make the image appear “normal” again.