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Nearly 155 years before CompuServe debuted the first animated gif in 1987, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau unveiled an invention called the Phenakistoscope, a device that is largely considered to be the first mechanism for true animation. The simple gadget relied on the persistence of vision principle to display the illusion of images in motion. ViaContinue reading "155 Years Before the First Animated Gif, Joseph Plateau Set Images in Motion with the Phenakistoscope"

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In 1829, a Belgian physicist devised a form of animation that is akin to our modern-day gifs: a spinning disk patterned with small repeating illustrations, attached to a handle that allowed it to spin and 'animate' the imagery. Due to the rapid progression of technology, phenakistoscopes' popularity lasted only a couple of years, yet they yielded wondrously beautiful moments in time and perhaps, a glimpse of the future. Check out these big ones, that somehow set a fine tone for a weekend... Some are rather modernist... ...Some border on psychedelic... This one has the curious effect of feeling the world turning...