Tuesday 1 December 2009

1831 Phenakistoscope


The Phennakistoscope was an early animation device, then predecessor of the Zoetrope. I was invented in the year 1832 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 it's circumference was a series of radial slits.

The audience for this type of animation would be rich people like the Emperor of China.
The important history of this animation is very wonderful because it was created in Ancient China.
The technique was spinning it while looking at it in slots.

The technology was very old becuase back then China was considered to be advanced.

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