What Does Zoopraxiscope Mean?
The zoopraxiscope was an early moving picture technology that emerged in the nineteenth century. According to some sources, it was patented by William Lincoln in 1867, while many sources also state that Edward Muybridge “invented” it in 1879. The zoopraxiscope helped to pave the way for the Lumiere machine and successive motion picture technologies.
Techopedia Explains Zoopraxiscope
The zoopraxiscope was a system in which the viewer looked through a small vertical slit in a solid opaque medium. As the patterned apertures moved around, it conveyed the sense of motion. The zoopraxiscope made use of early “frame animation” in which each frame is drawn slightly differently in a sequence. That led to effective optical illusion of movement.
