155 Years Before the First Animated Gif, Joseph Plateau Set Images in Motion with the Phenakistoscope
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155 Years Before the First Animated Gif, Joseph Plateau Set Images in Motion with the Phenakistoscope
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 th... See more