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Reticulation

noun

(photography) the formation of a network of cracks or wrinkles in a photographic emulsion.

An arrangement resembling a net or network. "The reticulation of a photographic emulsion"

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"Reticulation" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mrs. Tree's throat, but she said nothing. Mrs. Tree was over ninety, but apart from an amazing reticulation of wrinkles, netted fine and close as a brown veil, she showed little sign of her great age. As she herself said, she had her teeth and her wits, and she did not see what more any one wanted. In her morning gown of white dimity, with folds of soft net about ...

— Mrs. Tree • Laura E. Richards

... sweeping curve of gradually diminishing size, continuing from the lion's paws, round the neck, up to the forehead, and answering a decorative purpose as completely as the curls of the mane opposite. Of these, again, you cannot change or displace one without mischief; they are almost as even in reticulation as a piece of basket-work; but each has a different form and a due relation to the rest, and if you set to work to draw that mane rightly, you will find that, whatever time you give to it, you can't get the tresses ...

— The Queen of the Air • John Ruskin

Words linked to "Reticulation" : reticulate, picture taking, network, formation, photography