photo sculpture

[Pref. photo-, and Eng. sculpture (q. v.).] A proce for producing statuettes by the aid of photography, invented by M. Villème, a French sculptor. The model stands, in a studio of special construction, in the center of a circle of twenty-four cameras, by all of which he is photographed at the same moment. The twenty four negatives are then projected in succe ion upon a screen by means of an optical lantern, and the artist goes over the outline of each with the tracer of a pantagraph, a cutting tool acting upon a lump of modeling clay, mounted upon a turntable, being substituted for the usual pencil. After each photograph is gone over, the clay is turned through fifteen degrees, and when a complete revoJution has been effected, it is removed and finished by hand. 3103 phō-to-sphere, subst. [Pref. photo-, and Eng. sphere (q. v.).] Astron.: A luminous envelope believed to completely surround the sun within an outer environment of a dense atmosphere. It is from the photo more rarely of fixed stars. sphere that light and heat are radiated. Used