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Animated books combine three elements: story, colored illustrations which include text, and "two or more animated illustrations with their movement mechanisms working between a doubled page". [2] In 1938, Julian Wehr 's animations for children's books were patented as "moving illustrations" that move the picture up and down and horizontally at ...
The Moving Picture Book Company and The Pictorial Color Book Company were early 20th-century American publishers known for producing interactive children's books. These publishers specialized in creating movable books , which featured mechanical illustrations that could move or change scenes with the pull of a tab.
Maxwell Maltz drew inspiration from Norbert Wiener's book, Cybernetics, [4] which describes both animals and the self-guided missiles he helped develop in WWII as goal-seeking mechanisms. [5] In Psycho-Cybernetics, Maltz observed from Wiener's work the following on cybernetic mechanisms: There's a "mechanism" which can accept a "goal"
The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros Written in short, powerful vignettes, this classic novel reveals the world of Esperanza Cordero, a young Chicana growing in Chicago.
Movable books, a subsection of interactive books, are defined as "covering pop-ups, transformations, tunnel books, volvelles, flaps, pull-tabs, pop-outs, pull-downs, and more, each of which performs in a different manner. Also included, because they employ the same techniques, are three-dimensional greeting cards."
The book About automata by Hero of Alexandria (1589 edition) There are many examples of automata in Greek mythology : Hephaestus created automata for his workshop; [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Talos was an artificial man of bronze; King Alkinous of the Phaiakians employed gold and silver watchdogs.
Horse galloping The Horse in Motion, 24-camera rig with tripwires GIF animation of Plate 626 Gallop; thoroughbred bay mare Annie G. [1]. Animal Locomotion: An Electro-photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements is a series of scientific photographs by Eadweard Muybridge made in 1884 and 1885 at the University of Pennsylvania, to study motion in animals (including humans).
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought is a 1995 book by Douglas Hofstadter and other members of the Fluid Analogies Research Group exploring the mechanisms of intelligence through computer modeling.