Sentence examples for Cyclorama from inspiring English sources
noun
A display consisting of a continuous series of pictures placed on the walls of a circular room so as to appear in natural perspective by a person standing in the middle.
Images can also be projected onto the cyclorama surface to produce such effects as clouds or stars.
In the course of his experiments, Fortuny evolved a dome-shaped cyclorama, its rear wall surfaced in plaster.
Panoramas might be compared to Cinerama films and enjoyed as a stimulating optical entertainment, along with cyclorama drums (large pictorial representations encircling the spectator), trompe l'oeil diorama peep shows, and the show box, for which Thomas Gainsborough painted glass transparencies.
The dome was expensive and very cumbersome to maneuver and was soon replaced by a cyclorama (horizon or sky-cloth), which is still used today.
Introduced early in the 20th century, a cyclorama usually forms a smoothly curving, concave wall at the rear of the stage.
The cyclorama has a rough surface of plaster or canvas for diffuse light reflection and is painted white or light blue.
Although some theatres have a curved back wall that serves as a permanent cyclorama, it most commonly consists of a drop or traverse curtain that can be deployed according to need.
Its combination of a normal stage with a revolving stage and a cyclorama was innovative for its time.
There are tables and chairs for the notional "interiors"; the stark silhouettes of leafless trees are picked out against the white cyclorama-lit walls; at one end some wooden frames, receding in an artificial height-perspective, denote an old abandoned silver-mine.
Sanford Wurmfeld: E-Cyclorama (Edinburgh College of Art) A massive panorama of the colours of the spectrum that seem to change and fluctuate before your very eyes.
