Joseph Plateau
IN 1987, Belgian
Joseph Plateau introduced the world to his wonderful Phenakistoscope. Juxtapoz notes:
The phenakistoscope used a spinning disc attached
vertically to a handle. Arrayed around the disc’s center were a series
of drawings showing phases of the animation, and cut through it were a
series of equally spaced radial slits. The user would spin the disc and
look through the moving slits at the disc’s reflection in a mirror. The
scanning of the slits across the reflected images kept them from simply
blurring together, so that the user would see a rapid succession of
images that appeared to be a single moving picture.
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