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vortoscope|ˈvɔːtəskəʊp|
Also Vortoscope.
[f. vortex + -o + -scope.]
A mirror device used for producing abstract photographs (see quot. 1966).
1917E. Pound Let. 24 Jan. (1950) 104 The vortescope [sic] isn't a cinema. It is an attachment to enable a photographer to do sham Picassos. That sarcastic definition probably covers the ground. 1918― Pavannes & Divisions App. iv. 252 The vortoscope is useless to a man who cannot recognise a beautiful arrangement of forms on a surface. 1966A. L. Coburn Autobiogr. ix. 102, I aspired to make abstract pictures with the camera. For this purpose I devised the Vortoscope late in 1916. This instrument is composed of three mirrors fastened together in the form of a triangle... The mirrors act as a prism splitting the image formed by the lens into segments. 1982M. Harker in M. Weaver Alvin Langdon Coburn 2 He made a Vortoscope in 1916. Based on the principles of the kaleidoscope the instrument was composed of three mirrors fastened together in the form of a triangle. |