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

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

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

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

Rhymes for anaglyph

• hieroglyph
• petroglyph
• biff
• cliff
• diff
• glyph
• griff
• if
• riff
• schiff
• skiff
• sniff