(Born sometime 1786 and Died 22 September 1837) was a British Mathematician who revolutionised animation techniques by inventing a device called the Zoetrope.
The Zoetrope is "One of several
pre-cinema animation devices", Basically it was animation before cinema
existed. The word Zoetrope comes from the greek words Zoe meaning Life and
Tropos meaning turning.
The Zoetrope is a cylinder with slides cut vertically at even spacing around the side's. Inside the cylinder is a band of images of a set of sequenced pictures. As you spin the cylinder, The user would look through the slit and as the images would go past at a speed it would make all the images combine together one after the other and create a complete image that appears to be moving.
His invention is still used today but
in a different form. Pixar and Studio Ghibli made there own Zoetrope but
instead of being flat images they used 3D models but it gave the same effect.
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