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The retention of an image on the
retina after the object has moved.
When you look at an object, an
image of the object is projected on
the retina ( back inner wall) of
your eyes. Even if the object is
moved or removed, its image its
image remains on the retina for a
fraction of a second. This is called
persistence of vision.
http://scienceprojectideasforkids.com/2010/
persistance-of-vision-coins/
PERSISTENCE OF VISION
Evidence of artistic interest in
depicting figures in motion can be
seen as early as the still drawings of
Paleolithic cave paintings, where
animals are depicted with multiple
sets of legs in superimposed
positions, clearly attempting to
convey the perception of motion.
Egyptian burial chamber mural, ca.
4000 years old.
PRECURSORS TO ANIMATION
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A zoetrope is a device that produces an
illusion of action from a rapid succession
of static pictures. The term zoetrope is
from the Greek words "zoe", "life" and
τρόπος - tropos, "turn". It may be taken
to mean "wheel of life".
See animated examples here:http
://www.dickbalzer.com/Zoetropes.312.0.
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Zoetrope. (2011, July 10). In Wikipedia, The Free
Encyclopedia. Retrieved 04:43, July 12, 2011,
from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
title=Zoetrope&oldid=438730958
ZOETROPE (180 AD; 1834)
THE MAGIC LANTERN
A thaumatrope was a simple toy
used in the Victorian era. A
thaumatrope is a small circular disk
or card with two different pictures
on each side that was attached to a
piece of string or a pair of strings
running through the centre. When
the string is twirled quickly
between the fingers, the two
pictures appear to combine into a
single image.
THAUMATROPE (1824)
The phenakistoscope was an
early animation device, the
predecessor of the zoetrope. It
was invented in 1831
simultaneously by the Belgian
Joseph Plateau and the Austrian
Simon von Stampfer.
http
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phenakistosc
ope_3g07690b.gif
PHENAKISTOSCOPE (1831)
Flip books are essentially a primitive form of
animation. Like motion pictures, they rely on
persistence of vision to create the illusion that
continuous motion is being seen rather than a
series of discontinuous images being
exchanged in succession. Rather than
"reading" left to right, a viewer simply stares
at the same location of the pictures in the flip
book as the pages turn. The book must also
be flipped with enough speed for the illusion
to work, so the standard way to "read" a flip
book is to hold the book with one hand and
flip through its pages with the thumb of the
other hand. The German word for flip book—
Daumenkino, literally "thumb cinema"—
reflects this process.
FLIP BOOK (1868)
The praxinoscope, invented by French
scientist Charles-Émile Reynaud, was a
more sophisticated version of the zoetrope.
It used the same basic mechanism of a
strip of images placed on the inside of a
spinning cylinder, but instead of viewing it
through slits, it was viewed in a series of
small, stationary mirrors around the inside
of the cylinder, so that the animation would
stay in place, and provide a clearer image
and better quality.
Reynaud also developed a larger version of
the praxinoscope that could be projected
onto a screen, called the Théâtre Optique.
PRAXINOSCOPE (1877)
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