(computer graphics) Having selected portions of the outside removed so as to give an impression of theinterior.
2004 January,CADalyst:
While it used to take several seconds to generate a singlecutaway view in a complex freeform model, you can now view them just about instantly by dynamically scrolling and rotating a plane forward and backward through an object.
(television) The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else.
2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, inAV Club[1]:
the director struggles to jazz up his stilted blocking with clumsy montagecutaways, which are only effective in the upbeat, darkly funny number “Sincerely, Me,” in which Evan dreams up a dance-filled fantasy of his fake friendship with Connor.
(television) Acut to a shot of person listening to a speaker so that the audience can see the listener's reaction.
2004 October 18,The New Yorker:
Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “cutaways” or reaction shots[…]
1959 March, “New Reading on Railways: The Railwayman's Diesel Manual. By William F. Bolton.G. H. Lake. 7s. 6d.”, inTrains Illustrated, page172:
[...] The two assets of the book are clear explanation, and a multitude of extremely helpful diagrams, some in two colours, andcutaway photographs; these clearly unravel a difficult subject for the layman, as well as the student engineman for whom the primer is chiefly designed.
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