Everyone in your neighborhood is going to have a pumpkin carved with a goofy face sitting on their porches. Booooring. If you want to decorate for Halloween with something a little more original, why not turn your jack-o’-lantern into a working animated zoetrope and really wow all the kids stopping by to beg for free…
Oh, this is great. Alexandre Dubosc made this wonderful zoetrope that uses chocolate and popcorn to animate itself. As the multi-layer cake spins around, different things begin to appear as if they’re moving and it’s all perfectly matched with the sound. Corn kernels pop, popcorn gets catapulted and chocolate mouths…
These mesmerizing gifs are, quite literally, the stuff of nightmares. Strange, lovely nightmares.
This GIF is mesmerizing, but what the hell is it? It's one of many bio-inspired designs created by Nervous System, a design studio that uses 3D printing to recreate patterns found in nature, including corals, cellular colonies, and this technicolor fungus looking thing.
Watching the Earth step through the seasons in this zoetrope of cloud-free satellite images is strangely mesmerizing. While the Orbital Carbon Observatory will soon be tracking how the planet breaths, this is a planetary heartbeat of seasonal change.
Artist Takeshi Murata has physically animated this sphere using kinetic motion and strobes—it is not a 3D render. It is in fact a type of zoetrope, a rotating illusion originating in the nineteenth century, and was designed on a computer then fabricated by craftsmen and mechanical engineers.
Modern GIFs may make the Internet a more animated place, but they're no match for the sublime weirdness of 19th-century animations. While some are graceful mini-movies of people and animals, others seem pulled from some truly surreal nightmares.
Before YouTube, TV, and even the movies, people were genuinely entertained by a device called a Zoetrope that played simple looped animations while it spun. The animations were created on strips of paper that were placed inside the inner circumference of the device—a process that's been made considerably easier with…
Clever! This video was made using 18 images attached to a bicycle wheel. When spun at a certain speed, the pictures start looking like hilarious animation. Sorta like a Zoetrope but with a bicycle wheel! Oh right...cyclotrope. [Cyclotrope via Neatorama]
Adobe researchers have constructed a time machine that lets you view any web page over time, scrolling to see changes in data. But the Zoetrope software that lets you watch pricing or news-story changes over time has even headier magic powers, too.
Sony is using this 174-year-old technology to draw attention to the new Bravias' MotionFlow interpolation technology, which guesstimates new frames between existing ones, smoothing out content to display it up to a massive 200Hz.
Here's Batman, the Riddler and Mr. Freeze jumping around in a LEGO version of a zoetrope, a device from the Victorian-era that quickly spinned pictures to animate them. This one uses a turntable and synchronized LED flashes to produce the stroboscopic effect that creates the illusion of moving figures. The author,…