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  2. Phenakistiscope - Wikipedia

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    The phenakistiscope (also known by the spellings phénakisticope or phenakistoscope) was the first widespread animation device that created a fluid illusion of motion. Dubbed Fantascope and Stroboscopische Scheiben ('stroboscopic discs') by its inventors, it has been known under many other names until the French product name Phénakisticope ...

  3. Beta movement - Wikipedia

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    Demonstration of phi phenomenon using two black bars (SOA = 102 ms, ISI = −51 ms)Wertheimer's pure phi phenomenon and beta movement are often confused in explanations of film and animation, [6] [8] but they are quite different perceptually and neither really explains the short-range apparent motion seen in film.

  4. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Phenakistoscope

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    Disc for a phenakistoscope created by Eadweard Muybridge. Simulated mirror view of the above disc. Reason A little exercise in animated GIFs. The fixed image of the disc is from the Library of Congress, I just centered the image and tried to remove as much wobble as possible (accepting that this was probably not cut on a high precision machine), and rotated each copy by 360/13 degrees.

  5. Precursors of film - Wikipedia

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    In the early days of film the word "photoplay" was quite commonly used for motion pictures. This illustrates how a movie can be thought of as a photographed play.Much of the production for a live-action movie is similar to that of a theatre play, with very similar contributions by actors, a theatre director/film director, producers, a set designer, lighting designer, costume designer, composer ...

  6. Optics and vision - Wikipedia

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    The human eye is an organ which reacts to light for several purposes. As a conscious sense organ, the eye allows vision. Rod and cone cells in the retina allow conscious light perception and vision including color differentiation and the perception of depth. The human eye can distinguish about 10 million colors. [3]

  7. Alphonse Giroux - Wikipedia

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    The company's name for the device would end up to be the most commonly used one, soon adapted as 'phenakistiscope' in England (and later misspelled as 'phenakistoscope'). Giroux is also known for constructing the daguerreotype cameras designed by Daguerre, [ 2 ] the first commercially manufactured photographic camera in the world.

  8. Human eye - Wikipedia

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    The human eye is a sensory organ in the visual system that reacts to visible light allowing eyesight. Other functions include maintaining the circadian rhythm, and keeping balance. Arizona Eye Model. "A" is accommodation in diopters. The eye can be considered as a living optical device.

  9. Eye - Wikipedia

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    It is part of an organism's visual system. In higher organisms, the eye is a complex optical system that collects light from the surrounding environment, regulates its intensity through a diaphragm, focuses it through an adjustable assembly of lenses to form an image, converts this image into a set of electrical signals, and transmits these ...