Look up: Zoetrope

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   Zoetrope
   The zoetrope is an optical toy comprising a series of pictures on the inner surface of a cylinder. When the pictures are rotated and viewed through a slit, it gives the impression of continuous motion.
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   Zoetrope
   is an early device for creating illusion of continuous motion. A sequence of still pictures was viewed so quickly through slits in a rotating drum, that the images appeared to merge.
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   zoetrope
   Optical toy popular in Victorian times. It consists of a revolving cylinder which is open at the top and has a series of pictures arranged along the inner surface. The pictures are viewed through slits around the edge of the cylinder and appear to be moving when the box is rotated rapidly. The zoetrope was developed in the 1830s and is also known a ...
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   Zoetrope
   Zo'e·trope noun [ Greek ... 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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   zoetrope
   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. ... Origin: Gr. Life + turning, from to turn. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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   Zoetrope
   A `zoetrope` is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures. It consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. Beneath the slits, on the inner surface of the cylinder, is a band which has either individual frames from a video/film or images from a set of sequenced drawings or photographs. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures on the opposite side of the...
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   Zoetrope
   • (n.) 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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   zoetrope
   (from the article `animation`) ...by the Belgian Joseph Plateau in 1832, was the phenakistoscope, a spinning cardboard disk that created the illusion of movement when viewed in a ... The Muybridge pictures were widely published in still form. They were also made up as strips for the popular parlour toy the zoetrope `wheel of ... ...
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   zoetrope
   zoetrope A device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static or still pictures. It consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. Beneath the slits, on the inner surface of the cylinder, is a band which has either individual frames from a set of sequenced drawings or photographs. As the cylinder spins, the us...
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