Zoetrope

 

Zoetrope (zoh-ee-trohp)

 The zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. You look through the slits from the outside and  on the inside of the cylinder there is still images and when you spin the cylinder around it gives makes it look likes it animated and moving. The faster the it is spun, the smoother the animation appears. it gives off this effect due to something called Persistence of Vision which i described in the first blog.

It was first Invented by William George Horner in 1834 as a Daedalum and renamed a zoetrope (wheel of life) in the 1860’s by American toy maker William F. Lincoln. 

advantages - create and view things easily, its cheap

disadvantages- has moving parts which could go wrong, need a good level of art to make it look good.

to create your own zoetrope you will need a strip of paper with the animation drawn on it, you then need a cylinder/drum like object and you stick the paper around the bottom of it. you then need to cut slits of equal distance outside the drum, just above where the pictures are positioned. you then spin the drum around to see the animation. 

well known examples of a Zoetrope are a person riding a horse and person running as shown on the pictures

here is an example of how to create a zoetrope.