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Phenakistoscope[edit]

Disc for a phenakistoscope created by Eadweard Muybridge.
Simulated mirror view of the above disc.
Reason
A little exercise in animated GIFs. The fixed image of the disc is from the Library of Congress, I just centered the image and tried to remove as much wobble as possible (accepting that this was probably not cut on a high precision machine), and rotated each copy by 360/13 degrees. The mirror simulation is just one variant, check the image page for the others. Proposed extended caption:

The phenakistoscope is one of the first devices to create moving images and a precursor of the zoopraxiscope and, in turn, cinematography. Conceived as a simple disc to be held vertically in front of a mirror and spun around its axis, the subjects appear to be in motion when viewed through the slits of the disc. This disc was created by Eadweard Muybridge in 1893 and differs from the standard format in that the slits are located towards the center of the disc, and not around the perimeter.

Note: The disc belongs to a phenakistoscope, and not to a zoopraxiscope as the description claims, and was probably part of a patent application filed for the zoopraxiscope in 1893, the year he presented his invention at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Articles this image appears in
Phenakistoscope
Creator
Eadweard Muybridge (animation by trialsanderrors)
Nominator
trialsanderrors
  • Support — trialsanderrors 08:13, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Total support. Great find! --Janke | Talk 12:36, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support (as a set). --KFP (talk | contribs) 13:21, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neutral Beautiful and well executed and I'd probably support this if I hadn't first seen a bunch of much more bizarre and fascinating phenakistoscope discs (is that what they're called?) in Media Magica which is a video (dvd) of many of these things which was exhibited at ACMI a little while back. I'd love to see more discs scanned and animated like this one. —Pengo 16:06, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Awesome picture. And the little box that goes next to the featured picture on the front page explaining the phenakistoscope would very much represent an encyclopedia. BlackBear 17:27, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Per blackbear -- 8thstar 17:45, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Support Feantastic; great scan and of course the gifs are wonderful. Pengo - upload it if you can find a better one! Leon 21:57, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I wish I could! I've only seen them in a (no longer running) exhibition. —Pengo 03:35, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Great fun! Gaius Cornelius 23:32, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Comment If this is indeed a phenakistoscope and not a zoopraxiscope disk, then why does the disk itself say "zoopraxiscope"? (On the bottom of the image.) Enuja 23:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • The zoopractiscope, at least what we call a zoopractiscope today, is a precursor to the film projector, which used glass discs with motifs printed on them: [1]. But today's terminology doesn't always work retroactively, for instance the phenakistoscope was also called fantascope (see here for more detail and some nice animations). My guess is that Muybridge did not want to use the word phenakistoscope because it referred to someone else's invention, but instead wanted to draw attention to his own invention. But it's clear that by function this disc here is what we today call a phenakistoscope. ~ trialsanderrors 00:15, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per above, but why did you do a horizontal flip?--HereToHelp 00:59, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Because you watch it in the mirror. Check the ugent.be link above to see a picture of the appartus. ~ trialsanderrors 01:07, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. This rocks. howcheng {chat} 06:55, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Fun to watch Bewareofdog 00:12, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question Will this be a set, then? And if yes, should some or all of the other related images (shown on the image pages) be part of the set? --KFP (talk | contribs) 10:28, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I assume the mirror view is the one to go on the front page. I don't think the others are that relevant. If it were to be promoted as a set then it should contain this one: , but that was never nominated, and the set is incomplete anyway. ~ trialsanderrors 18:55, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Phenakistoscope 3g07690b.gif --KFP (talk | contribs) 11:08, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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