thaumatropes

This is a video of the thaumatropes we made in class on Monday the 1st of October.

A thaumatrope is a toy that was primarily used in (date), its works by having two separate images either side of a piece of card, when spun at the right speed the brain puts the two images together by predicting the next image; this is known as the persistence of vision.

The persistence of vision is where you are shown a sequence of separate images repeatedly, after a while your brain knows what the next image will be and starts to predict it making the next image and combines the two, making it seem that it is only one image.

Originally it was believed that it was down to your eyes retaining the image but now we know it was down to the brain.

My example was of a fish and on the opposite side there was a fish bowl, when spun it seemed as if the fish was inside of the fish bowl.  There are other designs you can make opposed to layering the two images onto of each other, for example when spun you could have two images appear to be next to each other like the amazing Pac Man thaumatrope in the video