GIF's Can Be Weird (Blog # 18)

The first made GIF's. Simple enough to say.

The Lesson

. 19th-century photographs and drawings were then pictured and made into animated GIF's. A large collection in a museum and as well on Tumblr. They in an odd way, are extremely disturbing in their own way as they continuously loop around and around with their actions. Weird and creepy.

. Joseph Plateau invented the device called a pnhenakistoscope. This device gives off an illusion which tricks the eye. A drawing that's on a disk is spun on a vertical axis, by spinning the disk and looking at the image in a mirror, a continuous image or animation is shown to be moving.

. Plateau's experiment oddly, was only out of scientific questioning and wonderment and thus, this was found. Because of his mistake on discovery, this form turned into entertainment.

2 OPINIONS

. When it is said that Plateau might have jokingly took LSD, I could say so that maybe he could have because of the images in the GIF's how can anyone think of such things. So trippy indeed, I totally agree.

. The Zoetrope gives a much more complex and possibly more smooth animation then Plateau's idea on the Pnhenakistscope.

A Question?

. Should we look into more older ways of animation and use this in more studies??