zoetrope

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(thing) by Magenta (7.1 y) (print) ? I like it! Tue Nov 30 1999 at 5:54:17

A very primitive form of animation, one of the many experiments done by the same guy who did a lot of persistence of vision experiments (and killed one of his retinas by staring at the sun). You have a single strip with a bunch of frames, which you put in a loop inside a drum with slots cut out so that through each slot you see a single frame of the loop. (This is a very common thing to see in a Children's Museum.) When you spin the drum (it's on a free-turning pivot) and look through one slot, each frame in turn passes behind it in such a way that it appears that the strip is staying still but the looped animation is being played on each frame. In effect, you get a very short, looping animation.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) I like it! Wed Dec 22 1999 at 4:31:17

Zo"e*trope (?), n. [Gr. life + turning, from to turn.]

An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved.

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