• A dark image highlighted against a lighter background,
• A view of an object or scene, consisting of the outline and a featureless interior.

The word silhouette came from Étienne de Silhouette, a French Controller-General of Finances under Louis XV, who later practiced silhouette cutting.

A sample of DIG members' explorations of silhouettes is displayed below.

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