Phenakitoscope.
The Phenakitoscope was an early animation
device that used the persistence of vision prinicple to create an illusion of motion.
Although this principle had been recognized by the Greek mathematician Euclid and later in experiments by Newton, it was not until 1829 that this principle became firmly established by the Belgian Joseph Plateau. Plateau planned it in 1839 and invented it in 1841.
device that used the persistence of vision prinicple to create an illusion of motion.
Although this principle had been recognized by the Greek mathematician Euclid and later in experiments by Newton, it was not until 1829 that this principle became firmly established by the Belgian Joseph Plateau. Plateau planned it in 1839 and invented it in 1841.
Zoetrope.
Zoetrope is not to be confused with Zoopraxiscope. A Zoetrope is a device that produces the illusion of motion from a rapid sucession of static pictures.
The zoetrope consits of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures across. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together, and the user sees a rapid succession of images, producing the illusion of motion.
The modern Zoetrope was invented in 1833 by British Mathematician William George Horner
The zoetrope consits of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures across. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together, and the user sees a rapid succession of images, producing the illusion of motion.
The modern Zoetrope was invented in 1833 by British Mathematician William George Horner
Praxinoscope.
The Praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Emile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures places around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits wit han inner circle of mirros, places so that the refelctions of the pictures appeared more or less stationary in position as the wheel turned. An individual looking in the mirrors would therefore see a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, with a brighter distorted picture than the zoetrope offered.
Kinetoscope.
The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhitition device. The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device.