William Hornor:
Created the Zoetrope. This device made the illusion of motion from a fast sequence of static pictures. The device was a round cylinder with slits on the outside and then on the inside was a strip of images from a set of sequenced pictures. This device used to work by spinning it really fast a lot like the Phenakistoscope and look though the slits at the images and you will see a pattern of images, making the illusion of motion.
William made the device in 1833 and he called the device Daedalum. Unfortunately, the device wasn't to popular until an America developer, William F Lincoln decided to take over and develop it further, then it was renamed the Zoetrope. The Zoetrope was produced to entertain people and it was created specifically as a toy which was then lead to the Zoetrope to be one of the longest toys using the principle of stop motion animation.
Company, Hudzo Design (2002) made a large 3D Zoetrope which was human powered, the device was showcased in Las Vegas at an art and culture show. Due to many people attending the show, the device was labelled as an art form. When the Zoetrope was created, its market audience was aimed at children because of the toy features. Also because most of the images inside were of animals and this lead to children to believe the device was a magical creation.
Persistence of Vision is the philosophy of the eye by which an afterimage is thought to continue for one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina.
The Phi Phenomenon is the optical illusion of perceiving continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession.
It can be moved at a different rate to make slow-motion or sped-up effects. Like other motion simulation devices, the zoetrope relies on the fact that the human retina retains an image for about a tenth-of-a-second so that if a new image appears in that time, the sequence was to be without a break in continuity.
Joseph Plateau was born in 1801, he lived till 1883 which was unusual for someone to live that long back in those days. He was the first person ever to demonstrate the illusion of the moving image, the way he did this was he used round counter disk and a series or repeating images on them. Each drawing to be a little different from the last. He called this device the Phenakistoscope, this device used a thing called Persistance Of Vison. This device was invented by another two people in the very same year, Simon Von Stampfer who called his stroboscope.
The projection of the images created the illusion of movement which it then eventually went into development for cinema. Plateau inspiration came from two people Peter Mark Roget and Michael Faraday, they were the original people to invent the device but Plateau developed it. He thought by moving the images slightly it would create the illusion of motion. The bad thing about this device is only two people could view this at one time, however two years later the Zoetrope was invented.
This was an upgraded version of the Phenakistoscope and more then one person could view the moving images at one time. The Zoetrope was actually invented as a toy for children but the people who invented it was more fascinated and they classed the toy as being magical so it actually didn't get produced as a toy. Joseph Plateau was the main reason why we discovered animation and he influence's many animators to this day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Plateauhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenakistoscope
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