What is the printing method that shows a different photo from different viewing angles?
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I’m trying to identify a print/display technique where two images are combined so that one photo is visible from one angle and the other photo is visible from another angle. It looks like the image is split into narrow sections or ridges, so each viewing angle reveals a different picture. What is this printing style called?
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This is known as lenticular printing.
From Wikipedia: How It Works
Each image is arranged (slicing) into strips, which are then interlaced with one or more similarly arranged images (splicing). These are printed on the back of a piece of plastic, with a series of thin lenses molded into the opposite side. Alternatively, the images can be printed on paper, which is then bonded to the plastic. With the new technology, lenses are printed in the same printing operation as the interlaced image, either on both sides of a flat sheet of transparent material, or on the same side of a sheet of paper, the image being covered with a transparent sheet of plastic or with a layer of transparent, which in turn is printed with several layers of varnish to create the lenses.
A close up of the surface of a lenticular printed 3D image.

To see how movement changes the image you see, this diagram shows it pretty effectively.

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This is called lenticular printing.
It works by interlacing slices of two or more images and placing them behind a sheet with tiny lens-like ridges. As your viewing angle changes, different slices are directed toward your eyes, so you see one image from one angle and another image from a different angle.
It’s commonly used for prints that flip between two photos, show simple animation, or create a 3D effect.
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