Diorama

(. :; Διοράω to AltGr " I see through it, shining through, I see through " so translucent image dioramas plural ) refers to standing in the wake of nativity scenes show cases in which with model figures and landscapes to an often semicircular, painted background as a diorama as historical scenes, social milieus ( a temporarily popular motif were so-called wedding crèches), professions or animals are shown in their natural environment.

Forms of dioramas

Originally a diorama was invented in the 19th century by Louis Daguerre darkened stage with semi-transparent, different sides painted prospectus. By constantly changing the lighting of the front and back movements and times of the day can thus be simulated effectively for example. These related to the panoramic technique is still used on theater stages.

Dioramas are often found in natural history and science museums and can be very artistic. Through the proper change of scale from the front to the background, the seemingly seamless transition from plastic landscape elements in the painted background and skillful lighting can be an almost perfect illusion of spatial depth and realism can be achieved - a kind of three-dimensional trompe l'oeil painting, the leaves look the same to the world the viewer a giant. In natural history museums, there are life-size dioramas, where prepared or reconstructed animals are presented in their habitat recreated scenes. The world 's largest diorama located at Disneyland in Anaheim, California; it represents the Grand Canyon dar.

In this tradition, the use of the word diorama is in model railway construction. Here, a whole system is not designed, but represent only the items that are also designed outside of the track area for a scenic illusion and detailed scenes. The modular Modellbahnbau really develop detailed systems.

Also in other areas of modeling dioramas are created frequently, for example in military model making. It is regularly a manageable section of the landscape or a scene from the real world recreated detail as possible on a base plate.

Analog were also ancient sailing ship half models often produced as dioramas. The making of sailing ship dioramas is next to the Buddelschiffbau a characteristic handicrafts of the sailors in the 19th and 20th centuries. As a subject, the modelers chose mostly what they had daily before our eyes: The sailing ship in the battle against the sea, the entrance to the harbor amidst picturesque surroundings, or the assumption of the pilot. The construction of dioramas instead of other models here had a practical reason: between the working sessions, the model remained in its wooden box protected and could easily be stowed below the bunk or behind the sea chest.

More panoramas are Georama, Neorama, Myriorama, Kosmorama, Pleorama, Cyklorama and peep box.

Stratigraphic Great Diorama

The Stratorama, a strategic graphic large diorama of the National Archaeological Museum in Brandenburg Pauli monastery deals with the archaeological excavation trench with its various layers of earth to make it clear to the viewer the relationships between deposition layers with archaeological finds and their temporal classification. The model takes the viewer from the present in the form of houses setting down on the different eras up to the ice age.