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Shadowgraphy or ombromanie is the art of performing a story or show using images made by hand shadows. It can be called "cinema in silhouette". It can be called "cinema in silhouette". Performers are titled as a shadowgraphist or shadowgrapher.
Shadowgraphy (performing art), using hand shadows; Shadow play or shadow puppetry, performing art using cut-out figures; Radiography, the use of X-rays; Shadowgraph or shadowgram, an optical method that reveals non-uniformities in transparent media; Optical comparator, a device that creates silhouettes of manufactured parts for inspection
Shadowgraph is an optical method that reveals non-uniformities in transparent media like air, water, or glass. It is related to, but simpler than, the schlieren and schlieren photography methods that perform a similar function.
A performance of wayang, an Indonesian shadow puppet form. Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated cut-out figures (shadow puppets) which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen or scrim.
Albert Almoznino (Hebrew: אלברט אלמוזנינו; March 3, 1923 – April 7, 2020) was an Israeli hand shadow artist.He gained international recognition in the years 1958-1975 when he performed his hand shadow skills in front of thousands of people at Radio City Music Hall New York, Paris Olympia, Reno Nevada, "The Ed Sullivan Show" [1] and other places.
Recto page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497). The canons of page construction are historical reconstructions, based on careful measurement of extant books and what is known of the mathematics and engineering methods of the time, of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.
History of scrolls – the history of a roll of papyrus, parchment or paper containing writing. History of the codex – the history of a book with handwritten content List of codices – list of codices published from late antiquity through the Middle Ages. Aztec codices – list of books written by pre-Columbian and colonial-era Aztecs.
Trewey was born in a workshop in the paper-making town of Angoulême in France. His father was a machinist who worked at one of the manufactories and lived on the premises. [ 7 ] Although his father wanted him to become an engineer at the manufactory, Trewey made up his mind what he wanted to do at seven years old.