myriorama means A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate cards so that they can be combined in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
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MYRIORAMA — [Noun] A picture composed of multiple independent sections, designed to be rearranged into a near-infinite variety of composite scenes. From the Ancient Greek μυρίος (muríos, "countless, infinite") and ὅραμα (hórama, "sight, spectacle"). Unlike a "panorama," which presents a single, fixed expanse, or a "diorama," which constructs a static, three-dimensional vignette, the myriorama is a combinatorial promise, a kit of visual potentialities. It is the soft clatter of painted cardboard strips on a mahogany table, the child shuffling a galleon before a mountain, and the quiet warmth of lamplight falling on a freshly assembled world—a modest proof that any landscape, like any life, is a temporary configuration of portable fragments.
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- A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate cards so that they can be combined in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes.“In 1825, Brès would produce the ultimate myriorama—a 36-card componium Pittoresque.”
- A traveling roadshow in the late 19th century featuring painted canvases that move on rollers to music (panoramas), reenactments of historical events with moving models (dioramas), variety acts, and lectures, all accompanied by sound effects, light effects, and smoke.“In September 1900, the Ipswich Journal reported that a demonstration of Poole's Myriorama had taken place at the public hall: 'Whenever Mr Joseph Poole comes to Ipswich with his famous myriorama, the public can rely on seeing something new, and this is the secret of its popularity.'”
- A shifting collection of ideas, locations, descriptions, or experiences.“Before He spake however, something seemed to say, Or intimate, that one superior mind Was near, or coming, and a view of that Majestic myriorama plainly told that half at least were stirred by some Unknown, though vigorous and potent cause.”