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.