Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The world saw its first modern zoetrope in 1833, and since its ...

Cool tech isn’t always about inventing something new. Sometimes it’s about re-creating the wheel, or, that is, the zoetrope. Before there was there was modern film, Victorian animators used spinning ...

Here’s a wonderfully neat project to perhaps spark some creativity as we head into this holiday weekend: the 3D printed Zoetrope. Take the concept of a flipbook — a series of frames displayed quickly ...

Although film and animation have come quite a long way, there’s still something magical about that grandaddy of them all, the zoetrope. Thanks to persistence of vision, our eyes are fooled into seeing ...

Nature’s algorithms reign supreme in a series of revolving 3D printed sculptures by designer-cum-artist John Edmark, also an adjunct lecturer at Stanford’s Department of Art & Art History. The ...

You can't talk about the early days of the movies without hailing the seemingly magical existence of the zoetrope, the device that allows a viewer to peer at a series of spinning still images, one ...