2headedsnake: cupetinte.blogspot.com Belgian Joseph Plateau. Invented the Phenakistoscope in 1832. The phenakistoscope uses a spinning disc attached vertically on a handle. Around the center of the disc a series of pictures was drawn corresponding to frames of the animation; around its circumference was a series of radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the disc’s reflection in a mirror.

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Belgian Joseph Plateau. Invented the Phenakistoscope in 1832. The phenakistoscope uses a spinning disc attached vertically on a handle. Around the center of the disc a series of pictures was drawn corresponding to frames of the animation; around its circumference was a series of radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the disc’s reflection in a mirror.