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PSEUDOSCOPY [1 record]

Record 1 2016-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
  • Photography
  • Cartography
DEF

The sensing, when viewing the image of an object, of relief contrary in direction to the relief of the object itself, e.g., hills are seen as valleys, etc.

OBS

When it occurs in viewing a stereoscopic pair of images, it may be caused by placing the images in the inverted order ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
  • Photographie
  • Cartographie

Spanish

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