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
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Nathanial took two of them from NASA's spaceflight gallery and combined them to make this anaglyph.
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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
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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
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“Anaglyph.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anaglyph. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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