Zoetrope

Zoetrope is an equitment used in the old days in the cinemas, used to show and create animations. The video above is an example of a zoetrope at work, by using a comic strip and drawing a little ball onto it going up and down. On paper it looks simple but then once it is put onto the zoetrope and spun around it looks like a moving animation.

Persistance of vision is when we see the flickering light whlist watching the movie on the screen we beileve that it is continuois and because of the flashes that we keep seeing on the scree of at least every one-tenth of a second, thanks to the persistance of this vision we cannot tell when the flash ends or starts.

The Disadvantages of using a Zoetrope is that you could break the illusion by simply looking at the top of the drum. Another disadvantage is that the narrative has to be circular and the freeze frames are limited.

The Advantages of using a Zoetrope is that it animate the simple comic strips used.