It’s hard to ignore the popularity of pizza and animated GIFs on the internet, especially on social networking sites like Tumblr. The Pizzoetrope is a device that brings pizza, animated GIFs, and social networking together in one elegant dish. As the name suggests, The Pizzoetrope is basically a zoetrope that is created on a pizza by using the toppings […]
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Youtube user atomikqbert posted this video of Aaron Copland’s, “Going Up For Seconds,” a wedding cake-shaped zoetrope animation (although, I think this may technically be a zoopraxiscope?). For this zoetrope, animation is captured using a camera with progressive scan. I wanted to play up the tiered cake shape of the zoetrope, so I made it […]
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You’ve perhaps seen Eadweard Muybridge’s Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, an early experiment that led to the development of motion pictures. This fantastic knitted cap pattern by Ravelry user Leah B. Thibault perfectly honors Muybridge’s contribution to cinema. Luckily, there’s no need to make anyone dizzy by testing it out; here’s an animated GIF of […]
Continue ReadingThis codebox shows you how to create a physical zoetrope using Processing, a Kinect, and a laser cutter. The sketch will load in a movie recorded from the Kinect’s depth camera, use the Processing OpenCV library to turn that movie into a series of outlines, and save the outlines out in vector form as a […]
Continue ReadingWho would have ever thought that there were so many ways to combine cycling and persistence of vision? Here’s another cool one to add to the list: much like a zoetrope, Tim Wheatley’s Cyclotrope is a bike wheel that gives the illusion of animation when it’s being spun on camera. [via Neatorama] More: Embroidered Animation […]
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Here’s a straightforward way to make an animation, it looks like it could be fun to make on a rainy day. Douglas Wise made a record player animation using a record player, digital video camera, and a carefully designed paper record.
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From the Design Media Lab at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, this “crystal zoetrope” technology involves spinning a cylinder of acrylic with internally etched 3D designs. The disk is surrounded by an array of LEDs that can flash in time with the rotation, or slightly asynchronously, to make the designs appear to move in space, and, additionally, to gradually rotate around the center of the cylinder in one direction or another. The direction and speed of rotation can be controlled by gestural movements on the tabletop. [via Dude Craft]
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