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8/6/2019 The History of Animation (Part 1)
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VISUAL
COMMUNICATION
AND
ANIMATION
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O
HOW DOES
VISUALCOMMUNICATION
WORK? (This involves several questions andoffers several possibilities)
How did the development of animation play a role?
How does human perception affectvisual communication?
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Humans have alwayswanted to communicate
using
MOTION
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Well lets go back to the
beginning, shall we
How about back to the timebefore history
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First we
find aneight-
leggedboar
in the Altamira Cavesof Northern Spain
Does it really have eight legs?
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Then
Wrestling
takes over
(of course)
an Egyptianwall
decorationcirca 2000
B.C.
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THE PERSISTENCE
OF VISION
T rue animation
cannot be achieved
without first understanding
a fundamental principle
of the human eye:
BUT,
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THE BLUE MAN GROUP
WHO BETTERTO EXPLAIN THE
CONCEPT THAN
PLEASE ENJOY THE SHOW AND ENJOY LEARNING
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How the human eye works
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At night weperceive the worldas black and white.
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How about howfast the eye sees?Lets consider:Frame Rate .
It is related to but not identical
to a physiological concept called theflicker fusion threshold or flicker fusion rate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiologyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fusion_thresholdhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fusion_thresholdhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiology8/6/2019 The History of Animation (Part 1)
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o Light that is pulsating
below a certain rate is
perceived by humans as flickering o Light that is pulsating above this
rate is perceived by humans asbeing continuous
o Few people perceive
flicker above about 75 hertz
Consider how you perceive objects illuminated by a strobe light.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertzhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz8/6/2019 The History of Animation (Part 1)
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To understand
this more clearlylets go back in time
again (but not so far)
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PAUL ROGET
A Frenchman invented the
thaumatrope in 1828
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It was a disc with a string
or peg attached
to both sides.
One side of the disc showed a bird,
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When the disc was
twirled, the bird
appeared in the cage
This proved that the
eye retains images
when it is exposed to
a series of pictures,
one at a time.
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Because ofthe persistence of vision!
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Other inventions
helped to further
the cause of animation
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JOSEPH PLATEAU
He invented the
phenakistoscope in 1826
It was a circular card with slitsaround the edge.
Pictured is the later
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The viewer heldthe card up to a
mirror and peeredthrough the slitsas the card whirled.
Through a series of drawings around
the circumference of the card, the viewer
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George Homer in 1834,
improved the idea with a
base and a drum with a strip of paper with a
hand drawn sequence of
pictures inserted.
He called it the Daedalum
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Some thirty years
later in 1887, it waspatented almostsimultaneously by
William F. Lincoln inAmerica and by M.
Bradley in England.
Mr. Lincoln renamed it the Zoetrope.
Are you noticing a pattern here? Inventors building on each
others work (or stealing the idea).
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LATER GIANTSTRIDES
WERE MADE
BY CREATIVE PEOPLE LIKEYOU!
So lets use our creativity and make our very ownthaumatropes.