How+has+Animation+Changed?

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The thaumatrope was a popular toy during the Victorian period, invented around the 1820s. It is a circular toy with an image on each side of the card or disk. The disk is held at opposite ends by pieces of string, which when turned between the fingers spin the disc rapidly which causes the two images, from either side of the disc, to combine and appear as one.
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A zoetrope is a drum shaped optical toy that turns still images into a moving animation. It was invented by W.G Horner in 1834 and then later developed by Milton Bradley who patented it in 1867. Images are printed or drawn onto a piece of paper that runs the length of the zoetrope’s circumference, with each image being slightly different from the previous one. This is then secured into place inside of the zoetrope’s drum. The drum has slits in it that are evenly spaced out; this is where the viewer looks through to see the animation. To make the animation work, the zoetrope needs to sit on a stand that will allow the drum to spin around. As the drum spins around and the viewer looks through the slits, an optical illusion makes the images appear to be moving and in doing so an animation is created.
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Flip book
The first [|flip book] was patented in 1868 by John Barnes Linnet. Flip books were yet another development that brought us closer to modern animation. Like the Zoetrope, the Flip Book creates the illusion of motion. A set of sequential pictures flipped at a high speed creates this effect. The [|Mutoscope] (1894) is basically a flip book in a box with a crank handle to flip the pages.