19TH CENTURY VISUAL TRICKERY: The hard-to-pronounce optical toy, - TopicsExpress



          

19TH CENTURY VISUAL TRICKERY: The hard-to-pronounce optical toy, the phenakistoscope, was an early animation device that used the persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion. Invented by Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau in 1841, the phenakistoscope was one of many pre-cinematic optical devices from the 19th century, which included the zoetrope, the phantasmascope, the fantascope, and the stroboscope. The term “phenakistoscope” comes from the Greek “phenakizein,” meaning “to deceive.” We think you will enjoy these imaginative and wildly psychedelic phenakistoscope animations, which predate the first motion picture cameras by nearly half a century.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:02:47 +0000

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