The phenakistiscope (also known by the spellings phénakisticope or phenakistoscope) was the first widespread animation device that created a fluid illusion...

regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistiscope. Plateau was born on 14 October 1801, in Brussels. His father, Antoine...

minor mechanics. In 1833, the stroboscopic disc (better known as the phenakistiscope) introduced the stroboscopic principles of modern animation, which...

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Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně used his version of the phenakistiscope to illustrate the beating of a heart. In 1861, Samuel Goodale patented...

be the explanation for motion perception in optical toys like the phenakistiscope and the zoetrope, and later in cinema. This theory has been disputed...

Instrument" was patented in the U.S. in 1869 by O.B. Brown, using a phenakistiscope-like disc with a technique very close to the later cinematograph; with...

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after the introduction of the first widespread animation device: the phenakistiscope Thaumatropes are often seen as important antecedents of motion pictures...

media that rely on the rapid display of sequential images include the phenakistiscope, zoetrope, flip book, praxinoscope, and film. Television and video...

stroboscopic animation was well-known since the introduction of the phenakistiscope in 1833, a popular optical toy, but the development of cinematography...

development of a later invention. For instance: the flip book, zoetrope and phenakistiscope are very tactile devices that allow study and play by manipulating...

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distortion of the projection. The projector was related to other projecting phenakistiscopes and used some slotted metal shutter discs that were interchangeable...

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mentioned how he could playback the animation from his gun using the phenakistiscope. In 1889 he developed the chronophotographe camera which took images...

morphing effect was created long before the introduction of cinema. A phenakistiscope designed by its inventor Joseph Plateau was printed around 1835 and...

images around spatially. Simon Stampfer, one of the inventors of the phenakistiscope animation disc (or "stroboscope discs" as he called them), suggested...

exclusively) using a record player. It is a contemporary reworking of the phenakistiscope, one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion...

had started work on combining this method with the principles of the phenakistiscope. 1859 – On April 7, 1859, the Belgian civil engineer and inventor Henri...

shows - were usually exhibited by travelling showmen at fairs. The phenakistiscope, zoetrope, praxinoscope and flip book a.o. are often seen as precursors...

Almost simultaneously, a similar device was developed in Belgium (the phenakistiscope). Simon Ritter von Stampfer was born in Matrei in Osttirol, and was...

application for his stroboscopische Scheiben (better known as the "phenakistiscope"), explained how the illusion of motion occurs when during unnoticed...

photographs really made up the graceful movements, he developed a phenakistiscope-based projector with the images traced onto glass disks. The "Zoopraxiscope"...

application for his stroboscopische Scheiben (better known as the "phenakistiscope"), explained how the illusion of motion occurs when during unnoticed...

Instrument" was patented in the United States in 1869 by O.B. Brown, using a phenakistiscope-like disc with a technique very close to the later cinematograph; with...

University Repositories and notable holdings Ghent University Library Phenakistiscope Oxyrhynchus Papyri Papyrus 60 Perpetual Edict (1611) Liber Floridus...

Plateau, Belgian physicist, mathematician, and inventor (inventor of the phenakistiscope, the first widespread animation device that created a fluent illusion...

traced to the moving image inventions of the 19th century such as the phenakistiscope (1833), the praxinoscope (1877) and Eadweard Muybridge's zoopraxiscope...