0 a device used in the past consisting of a cylinder with slits (= long, narrow holes) cut in it and a series of images drawn on the inside. When the cylinder is turned, a person looking through the slits sees the images appear to move. : --
By spinning the disk rapidly enough, the object seems complete- in a way similar to a zoetrope, and capturing of motion becomes possible.
She grew up with horses, dogs, cats, a zoetrope toy and fantasies about being a cowgirl.
They were exposed to early technologies like zoetrope with galloping horses that animate on rotation.
In the 1860s mechanisms such as the zoetrope, mutoscope and praxinoscope that produced two-dimensional drawings in motion were created.
Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder.
The earliest projected moving images were displayed using a magic lantern zoetrope.
Since then, a variety of artists and advertisers have begun to use subway tunnel walls to produce a zoetrope effect when viewed from moving trains.
The zoetrope had several advantages over the basic phenakistoscope.