Meaning of phenakistoscopic | Babel Free

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Of or relating to the phenakistoscope.

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“A modified form⟳ of the phenakistoscope, in which the usual figures of horsemen, &c., are replaced in the revolving disk by a double⟳ set⟳ of highly-coloured circular arcs, all passing through the centre of motion, and intersecting each other, pair and pair, in such a way that the limbs exhibit a slightly different relation in each successive pair, on the same principle as ordinary phenakistoscopic figures are arranged.”

“Dear Doctor [Henry G. Wright],—I heard nothing of Mr. [Antoine] Claudet’s paper on the possibility of producing a series of phenakistoscopic figures by means of photography, nor yet of the probability of rendering such appearances more life-like by means of the stereoscope.[…]The phenakistoscopic effect was produced in this wise:—I prepared a kind of paddle-wheel in card-board, with half a dozen floats to it, and upon the front of each of these six floats I pasted one of the stereoscopic pictures—say⟳ that intended for the left eye.”

“Also like⟳ his peep show⟳ forebears, [Émile] Reynaud was interested in stereoscopic moving pictures. To display them, he reverted to phenakistoscopic technology using two drums, each carrying a separate-eye view⟳ of the movement.[…]With the phenakistoscopic disk, the left- and right-eye pictures, because they were vertically stacked, did not have⟳ equal radii and did not rotate at quite the same speed⟳.”

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