Joseph Plateau
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Joseph Plateau, a Belgian physicist, was the first person to demonstrate moving images in 1832 with his invention called the phenakistoscope. The phenakistoscope used two disks, one with drawn images and the other with slots, that when spun and viewed through the slots and a mirror, created the illusion of motion as the images blended together. While it only allowed one viewer, the later zoetrope improved on the design by not requiring a mirror and enabling multiple viewers.
Joseph Plateau
- 2. Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (14 October 1801 15 September 1883) was a Belgian physicist. He was the first person to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this he used counter rotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistoscope.
- 3. A Phenakitstoscope works by creating an image when you spin the disc around and look through the small slits whilst reflecting it in a mirror.
- 5. Online sources sometimes refer to this invention as the Phantasmascope or the Phantascope. As the images spin so quickly the image becomes blurred and this creates an animation. The zoetrope came later and didnt require a mirror and unlike the phenakistoscope it could be used by more than one person at a time.