Egdumacated
- "Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau is widely credited with inventing the phenakistoscope in 1832 as part of a study on how the eye perceives illusions." Rad.
- "Richard Balzer’s love affair began about 40 years ago, when he saw his first magic lantern — an early image projector invented in the 1600s." The 1600s is a loooong time ago.
- "The device consists of a circular disc that spins around a vertical axis. Plateau and other artists would draw a series of still images around the disc’s center and cut equally spaced slits around its edges... The slits effectively acted as shutters, keeping the images from blurring together and resulting in what appeared to be a fluid, looped animation." That's a lot of work.
Thoughts
- Those all look really creepy and dark. What were they thinking of back then? People being eaten by creepy creatures seems to be a constant in that article. And the devil loosing his head is also spooky.
- That all seems a lot harder than what we do today. Today we can just click a button and see the last frame (or more than just one frame before) and draw from that. They had to kind of guesstimate based on a the frame to its left, which would've probably been hard to overlap and see.
Question
- How long did it normally take to make one of these phenakistascopes?
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