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    The phenakistiscope (also known by the spellings phénakisticope or phenakistoscope) was the first widespread animation device that created a fluid illusion...
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  • minor mechanics. In 1833, the stroboscopic disc (better known as the phenakistiscope) introduced the stroboscopic principles of modern animation, which...
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    regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistiscope. Plateau was born in 14 October 1801, in Brussels. His father, Antoine...
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  • microscope ophthalmoscope otoscope periscope phenakistoscope also phenakistiscope praxinoscope Rotoscope spectroscope spotting scope stereoscope stroboscope...
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    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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    stroboscopic animation was well-known since the introduction of the phenakistiscope in 1833, a popular optical toy, but the development of cinematography...
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    be the explanation for motion perception in optical toys like the phenakistiscope and the zoetrope, and later in cinema. This theory has been disputed...
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    University Repositories and notable holdings Ghent University Library Phenakistiscope Oxyrhynchus Papyri Papyrus 60 Perpetual Edict (1611) Liber Floridus...
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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...
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    Tunnel, Taken on the Opening Day, May 3, 1830 The Giant's Causeway Phenakistiscope discs Many of his subjects were engraved and published, generally in...
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    Kinetoscope Magic lantern Megalethoscope Mutoscope Peep show Phantasmagoria Phenakistiscope Praxinoscope Raree show Shadow play Stereoscope Thaumatrope Théâtre...
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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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    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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    images around spatially. Simon Stampfer, one of the inventors of the phenakistiscope animation disc (or "stroboscope discs" as he called them), suggested...
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    morphing effect was created long before the introduction of cinema. A phenakistiscope designed by its inventor Joseph Plateau was printed around 1835 and...
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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...
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  • shows - were usually exhibited by travelling showmen at fairs. The phenakistiscope, zoetrope, praxinoscope and flip book a.o. are often seen as precursors...
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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...
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    photographs really made up the graceful movements, he developed a phenakistiscope-based projector with the images traced onto glass disks. The "Zoopraxiscope"...
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    application for his stroboscopische Scheiben (better known as the "phenakistiscope"), explained how the illusion of motion occurs when during unnoticed...
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    advertisement. Other concepts for stereoscopic viewers include a double-phenakistiscope version that one F. Wenham (possibly Francis Herbert Wenham) in 1895...
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    University Repositories and notable holdings Ghent University Library Phenakistiscope Oxyrhynchus Papyri Papyrus 60 Perpetual Edict (1611) Liber Floridus...
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    exclusively) using a record player. It is a contemporary reworking of the phenakistiscope, one of several pre-film animation devices that produce the illusion...
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    application for his stroboscopische Scheiben (better known as the "phenakistiscope"), explained how the illusion of motion occurs when during unnoticed...
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    Skies) 2011 – Live from Planet Earth - Bootleg Series Volume 3 2012 – Phenakistiscope (bonus DVD with A Flash Flood of Colour) 2012 – Live in London. W6...
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    century. In 1833, Joseph Plateau introduced what became known as the phenakistiscope, an early animation device based on a stroboscopic effect. The principle...
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  • Plateau, Belgian physicist, mathematician, and inventor (inventor of the phenakistiscope, the first widespread animation device that created a fluent illusion...
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    1845 from the device then called stroboscope (Simon von Stampfer) and phenakistiscope (Joseph Plateau). This was the first example of projected animation...
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    traced to the moving image inventions of the 19th century such as the phenakistiscope (1833), the praxinoscope (1877) and Eadweard Muybridge's zoopraxiscope...
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  • invention of the Fantascope, also known as the stroboscopic disk or the phenakistiscope, which was popular in several European countries for a while. Plateau...
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