Definition of stereography in English:
stereography
noun ˌstɪərɪˈɒɡrəfiˌstɛrɪˈɒɡrəfi
mass nounThe depiction or representation of three-dimensional things by projection on to a two-dimensional surface, e.g. in cartography.
Example sentencesExamples
- This article describes the estimates of the elevations of the Mars Face and its surroundings I derived using stereography and the implications of these results.
- In order to create the illusion of three-dimensionality, the lenticular process uses the same principles as used in stereography.
- Meanwhile, cameras with multiple lenses and faster exposures made stereography a booming business.
- From the humorous to the tragic to the mundane, stereography has left its indelible mark on history.
- The stereography approach can be used when it is not feasible to do a CT scan of the sample.
Derivatives
noun
In the end, the sales of stereographs were meager, and the vast majority of people who saw O'Sullivan's photographs from the survey saw them at public expositions, often as full-plate prints rather than stereographs.
Example sentencesExamples
- The ten stereographs located so far seem to verify the story of sixteen having been printed before the Chicago fire, all likely on the yellow Copelin & Son mount with the 131 Lake Street address.
- It also coincided with the decline of the professional anatomical museum, as the glass slide, the photograph, photomicrograph, stereograph, film, and statistical table became the media in which anatomy and pathology were documented.
- This bust is now lost, but its plaster cast is recorded in a rare stereograph of the artist in his studio in the mid-1860s.
- A final gallery had 12 computer terminals equipped with specially designed goggles for viewing a programmed selection of 200 out of the thousands of stereographs Watkins made during his long career.
adjective ˌstɛrɪə(ʊ)ˈɡrafɪkˌstɪərɪə(ʊ)ˈɡrafɪk
The system is equipped with transmitters and LCD shutter glasses which permit stereographic 3 - D viewing of high-resolution images.
Example sentencesExamples
- This is represented by means of two synthetic stereographic projections in Figure 6.
- O'Sullivan's stereographic image from 1871 of a melon cactus bears signs of his imbrication of photography and the practice of specimen collection.
- A stereographic image, for example, resembles an image viewed through a fish-eye lens, and is the same kind of projection as that used to render the Earth's sphere flat for atlases.
- Poles to the shear fabrics and slickenline data, when plotted on stereographic projections, indicate vergence to the SW with some scatter mainly to the south.
adverbˌstɪərɪə(ʊ)ˈɡrafɪkliˌstɛrɪə(ʊ)ˈɡrafɪkli
The position of the face and the generation of the rhombohedron is depicted stereographically in Figure 8.
Example sentencesExamples
- Precise navigation of the images is done manually by fitting the polar stereographically projected images to a land/sea mask.
- These events are mapped by back-projection onto the 2-sphere to produce a convolution integral that is subsequently stereographically projected onto a 2-plane to produce a second convolution integral which is deconvolved by the Fourier method to produce an image that is then projected onto the 2-sphere.
- Project a sphere S stereographically from its north pole N onto its equatorial plane.
- We are now going to map, or stereographically project, the circle onto the x axis.