The phenakistoscope used a spinning disc with drawings of animation phases around its center and radial slits cut through. When spun and viewed through the slits' reflection in a mirror, the rapid succession of reflected images appeared as a single moving picture due to the scanning of the slits across the reflections preventing simple blurring together. The phenakistoscope, invented in 1832 by Joseph Plateau, was one of the earliest animation devices using an optical illusion to display sequential images as continuous motion.
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3. The phenakistoscope used a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle. Arrayed
around the disc's center were a series of drawings showing phases of the
animation, and cut through it were a series of equally spaced radial slits. The user
would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the disc's reflection in a
mirror. The scanning of the slits across the reflected images kept them from
simply blurring together, so that the user would see a rapid succession of images
that appeared to be a single moving picture.
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FENAQUITOSCOPIO息 - The Phenokistoscope was
invented in 1832 by a Belgian
physicist named Joseph Plateau.
- Simon von Stampfer was also
independently inventing it in the
same year but called his the
stroboscope
