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An optical toy.

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  • Stampfer called them the stroboscopic disks, Plateau the phenakistoscope.
  • There's a hydrogen rocket project, a laser in a lunchbox, plans for building a motorized, Arduino-powered phenakistoscope, an homage to maker toys of the 1960s, and a...
  • The problem did not arise with the kinetoscope only but had interested the preceding generations who amused themselves with the phenakistoscope and the stroboscopic...
  • On the other hand if the essential feature of the moving pictures is the combination of various views into one connected impression, we must look back to the days of the...
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