anaglyph

noun

ana·​glyph ˈa-nə-ˌglif 

1

: a sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief

2

: a stereoscopic motion or still picture in which the right component of a composite image usually red in color is superposed on the left component in a contrasting color to produce a three-dimensional effect when viewed through correspondingly colored filters in the form of spectacles

anaglyphic

ˌa-nə-ˈgli-fik 

adjective

Examples of anaglyph in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Nathanial took two of them from NASA's spaceflight gallery and combined them to make this anaglyph. —Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2011

The color separations of the anaglyph create pools of red and cyan that shimmer across the surface. —Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2020

There’s an out-of-register floral wallpaper (2015) which, when viewed through red and blue anaglyph glasses, appears three-dimensional. —Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 26 May 2018

They were tied to a 3-D-imaging method called anaglyph that dates back to the 1950s. —Brian X. Chen, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2009

Word History

Etymology

Late Latin anaglyphus embossed, from Greek anaglyphos, from anaglyphein to emboss, from ana- + glyphein to carve — more at cleave

First Known Use

1651, in the meaning defined at sense 1