Books with anaglyphs

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Laboratory of Letters and Images. March 2025

Library

Children and families

29 March 2025

Can you imagine reading a book and discovering that, with some simple colored glasses, the images come to life? That is precisely what happens with anaglyphic books, a unique proposal that combines art, technology, and literature to create surprising visual experiences.

These books not only tell stories, but they invite us to interact with them, exploring hidden images that seem to jump off the page. There are many albums that invite us to discover hidden images with color filters. These "magic filters" sometimes come in the form of viewers, other times they have the shape of a magnifying glass or glasses. They are generally blue and red and work by erasing red ink from our view and highlighting blue ink or vice versa. In this way, a visual effect is created that makes parts of the drawing appear and disappear, causing amazement and surprise in the person reading.

But today we want to go a little further and discover the ANAGLYPHIC EFFECT. There are few books designed with this 3D effect, but the ones that exist are amazing.

In this article we explain what anaglyphs are, how red-blue filters work to create this 3D effect, and why these works are true gems for those seeking something more than reading: they want to discover, be surprised, and play with reading!

They are flexible books that invite us to creativity, to share stories aloud, to "hack" their initial reading proposal to invent other ways of reading.

MYRIORAMAS.

Myrioramas are a type of illustrated book that consists of a series of images or scenes printed on independent cards, which can be combined in different ways to create landscapes or visual narratives. Each image can be placed next to all the others; it doesn't matter in what order you put them, they will always match and create a panoramic image that makes sense. This allows an "infinite game" of creating scenes and stories, by allowing us to combine the cards in so many ways.

The term "myriorama" comes from the Greek "myrios", which means "countless" or "innumerable", and "orama", which refers to a view or panorama. This type of book became popular in the nineteenth century and was used for both entertainment and education.

Information

Opening hours: 11:30 hours and 13:00 hours
Duration: 60 minutes
Type of activity: Books, Workshop
Modality: Online

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Laboratory of Letters and Images

Children and families , 27.01.2018 - 26.12.2026

During the first stage of childhood, knowledge of the world and of oneself is acquired through the experience provided by the senses.For this reason, it is fundamental that we provide stimulation for each of the senses individually, but also together, since they are not isolated from one another.These laboratories are a field of learning and discovery and an opportunity to showcase high-quality books both for what they tell and for how they tell it. From 5 to 12 years old.With the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Universities and EmploymentIn collaboration with: Provincial Council of Alicante

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