Zoetrope

Zoetrope

A Zoetrope is a cut open cylinder which has a series of pictures around the inside of the cylinder. To see the pictures there are several slits in the to look through and see the image progress. 

A Zoetrope is not that dissimilar to a Thaumatrope in the way that they both do not have a lot aa pictures most Zoetrope's have around 8+ pictures inside them, The speed that the drum is turned at will determine how fast the animation will go, it is unclear however if the inventor of the zoetrope intended it to be an animation.

The Zoetrope is thought as the predecessor to the 5000 year old earthenware bowl which originated from Iran, It is hard to put an exact date that the Zoetrope was actually invented as there are so many people claiming they know who created it.

One very known version of a zoetrope is the one including the horse which shows a man/woman riding a horse which shows the horse galloping around the zoetrope.

Another Zoetrope that is well know is the one that broke the Guinness world book of records for being the biggest Zoetrope ever made it was made for Sony to promote their motion interpolation technology. This Zoetrope features 64 photos of the footballer Kaka

An advantage of zoetrope is that the animation is consistent when the user starts the zoetrope, A zoetrope can be viewed by any angle and still have the same animation.

A disadvantage of zoetrope is that it is hard to make and also that the animation that is produced by the zoetrope is repetitive as it plays the same animation over and over again.

Thaumatrope

Thaumatrope

A Thaumatrope is a circular piece of paper with either two pieces of string or a stick through the paper that  when twisted creates an illusion that the two pictures are on either side of the paper are joined together.

An advantage of a Thaumatrope is that it is easy to create because the materials used which makes it a simple Animation.

A disadvantage of a Thaumatrope is the drawing on each piece of paper has to have enough detail to make the animation look convincing to the person using it. The animation is also limited because there only is two drawings which means it will keep repeating its self.

The inventor of the Thaumatrope is rather undecided as the invention is usually credited to John Ayrton Paris, but someone else has claimed that William Henry Fitton invented it by saying he told John Herchel had seen do the same type of animation but with a coin instead.

The Thaumatrope is thought to be invented from 1785 to 1856 from the time period from which John Paris lived from if he did invent it.

One very well know example of a Thaumatrope is the bird in a cage, in this thaumatrope there is a bird on one side of paper and the cage on the other  which gives the illusion that when turned that the bird is the cage.

Another well known example of a thaumatrope is the Fish in the bowl which has a fish on one side and a bowl on the other which gives the illusion of the fish being in the bowl.