Look up: phenakistoscope

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   phenakistoscope
   A 19thC optical toy, also known as a magic disc or fantascope. Illustrated circular cards are fixed onto a disc with slits at intervals around its circumference. A handle is fixed to the centre of the disc, and the disc is spun. The user looks through the slits at a mirror where the image is reflected and appears to be moving.
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   Phenakistoscope
   Phen`a·kis'to·scope noun [ Greek ... a deceiver + -scope .] A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may be projected upon a scr ...
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   phenakistoscope
   <instrument> A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc, in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may be projected up ...
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   Phenakistoscope
   The `phenakistoscope` (also spelled `phenakistiscope`) was an early animation device, the predecessor to the zoetrope. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. One variant of the phenakistoscope was a spinning disc mounted vertically on a handle. Around the center of the disc a series of pictures was drawn corresponding to frames of the animation; around its circumference was a ser...
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   Phenakistoscope
   • (n.) A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may be projected upon a s...
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   phenakistoscope
   (from the article `animation`) ...were shown in fast succession, the human eye would perceive them as a continuous movement. One of the first commercially successful devices, ... ...for sound films). Before the invention of photography, a variety of optical toys exploited this effect by mounting successive phase drawings of ... [2 re...
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