Zoe-trope

Phi phenomenon  is the optical of perceiving a series of still images, when viewed in a chain of continuous motion. This is the reason motion illusion in cinema, animation and including the zeotrope. There is also a way to test this with a experimental demonstration, this would have to viewed by a person to get the phi phenomenon involves a viewer or audience watching  a screen, upon which the experimenter projects two image in succession.

Persistence of vision is another optical illusion where multiple discrete image blend together to make a single image in the human mind when there is not one in actual fact. For example the famous jesus optical illusion is the effect of this as you stare at the dots in the middle you start to realise that now the image has turned into Jesus in colour.

The Zoetrope is type of pre-film animation that produces an illusiion of movement by showing a sequence of drawings or images that show the stages of motion.  The name "Zoetrope" came from the  greek root words ζωή"life" and τρόπος"turning". the zoetrope features a cylinder with slits vertically cut in the sides which is what the viewer will look the through, this will stop the blurring that will happen if you just stare at the paper which turns around in circles. The zoetrope has barely changed over the years and still feature the same set of equipment.

It was modern zoetrope was invented in 1834 by a British mathmetician called William george Horner  which he called the daedalum which actually means the wheel of the devil
however it was actually first invented over 5000 years ago from Iran which was the early stages of  Zoetrope we know today.  William f licoln had rented it to  zoetrope meaning the wheel of life, the popularity of the zoetrope came in the late 19th Century. Since the late 20th century zoetropes have been used for artwork, entertainment and in other media use such as in horror films which have been used several times.

We were asked to make our own zoetropes, I began with a simple design which was a ball moving around, which was fairly easy to do, but I wanted to make them more complex which is involving movement of a stick man and having constant shapes for each image which was harder.  The zoetrope overall has limitations as you can only do so much with it and you would need a larger zoetrope to do something incredibly creative. The zoetrope overall has many limitations as you cannot tell much of a story as it only goes round in circles which means a receptive narrative which has a maximum length in which to present it.