User:Quinten swagerman/Pristitrope, 2012

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Pristitrope

Description

The Pristitrope is a modification of the zoetrope, a pre-cinematic optical toy that shows short, looped animations. It replaces the zoetropes static illustrations with 18 tiny LCD screens, merging a digital way of showing images with an analogue way of showing their movement. The machine knows in which direction it is turning. Therefore, basic interactivity is possible, for example in the form of simple game structures or choices within a clockwise/counterclockwise narrative.

Technical support: Jasper van Loenen & Mr. Stock

Fablab aid: Remko Siemerink & Rudin Swagerman

Media

Photos

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Video


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Essay

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A thesis on the phenakistoscope, its circumstances of invention, and how it is that we can see separate still frames as one continuous moving image.

Thesis PDF / Phenakistoscope GIF

Additional Information

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