Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument allied to the phenakistoscope and zoetrope, and giving like effects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Opt.) An instrument, similar to the phenakistoscope, for presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural motions of real objects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
animation device invented in 1877 and used in early image projection
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Examples
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The Star Wars Holographic Animation Lab uses the technology of a praxinoscope, which is the next step from a zoetrope.
Coolest Gadgets Mark R 2010
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The Star Wars Holographic Animation Lab uses the technology of a praxinoscope, which is the next step from a zoetrope.
Coolest Gadgets Mark R 2010
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Émile Reynaud invents the praxinoscope, which projects a sequence of moving images onto a screen.
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The effect is rather hypnotic (the mirrored device is an ersatz praxinoscope for all of you optics junkies), and a neat addition to the typical children's fare on the record itself.
Boing Boing 2006
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The included animation discs feature pictures which come alive when placed in your finished praxinoscope.
Horsey Praxinoscope 2007
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The effect is rather hypnotic the mirrored device is an ersatz praxinoscope for all of you optics junkies, and a neat addition to the typical children's fare on the record itself.
Hours of hypnotic fun The Nag 2007
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In a preceding note upon the same subject, Mr. Hospitalier remarked that upon combining these effects of perspective with those of the praxinoscope, which give the sensation of motion, we would obtain entirely new effects.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 Various
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There are plenty of treats - from Mareys's bronze cast of a bird in flight, of which only three exist, to an opportunity to play with a zoetrope, praxinoscope and phenakistoscope (try saying those afterwards at the pub) to a cabinet showing the comic world's attempt to show motion via whoosh lines and multiple legs.
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In the 1860s, the zoetrope and praxinoscope were created and they tolerable for two dimensional images to be played back in motion.
Article Source 2009
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Check out Moray McLaren's "We Got Time" video, with animation drawn and created by director David Wilson: Using the 19th century technology of the praxinoscope, Wilson was able to create wonderful bits of animation with no assisting from the computer (well, no animation from the computer).
LCSV4 Steven Silverwood 2009
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