Lenticular Printing
レンチキュラー印刷 / 1940s– / Technique / Print Expression
Lenticular printing interlaces multiple images into thin alternating strips and aligns them with parallel lenses so one print flips, animates or gains depth as the viewing angle changes.
Two or more images switching with viewing angle / Source frames interlaced into narrow vertical strips / A surface of parallel cylindrical lenses / Depth or motion built from binocular offsets or sequential frames
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Making exhibit signs, posters or packaging change along a visitor's path · Putting brief movement or depth into a print without power
- Type
- Keep type on the same baseline in every frame and avoid strokes too fine for the lens direction.
- Composition
- Set viewing position and movement first; use two frames for a flip or matched sequential frames for motion.
- Material
- Interlace to the lens pitch and align the printed strips and lenticular sheet without drift.
- Caution
- Layered stripes do not make a lenticular. Image pitch, lens pitch, direction and registration must agree before the views separate.
- Further study
- Image interlacing / Lenticule pitch and viewing angle / Flip, animation and stereoscopic depth
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