Make A High Tech Zoetrope

This is an amazingly simple and fun way to animate real three dimensional objects. A great art/science project, eye catching advertisement or an awesome conversation piece,

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• Zoetrope
• Animation
• Film
• Movie
• Praxinoscope
• Flip
• book
• 3D
• Strobe
• Stroboscope
• Stroboscopic
• disk
• Peepshow
• Tachyscope
• Zoopraxiscope
• Thaumatrope
• Magic
• lantern
• Stop
• motion
• Reed
• switch
• Pixar
• Frame
• Cycle
• Walt
• noon
• stop motion

[dannymosquito]

Wow great video! thanks so much for sharing. Does the room have to be in complete darkness for this to work. The reason I ask is I noticed when you start to spin the wheel without the strobe you can still see all the frames of the balls. Unless the room was in complete darkness why wouldn't you still see the darker images when the strobe is in the off position causing a blurring effect. Is it to do with the human eye focusing on the brighter images and ignoring the darker?

[noonco]

@dannymosquito Complete darkness is best, though you can certainly make out the animation as the lights begin to dim. Yes, the blurring is caused when the duration of the flash is too long. When the flash is short, the wheel is visually frozen at that moment, so there is no "motion" blurring. If the flash is too short, then the wheel looks "dim" because your eye does not have enough time to respond to the flash. Hence, the little focus tool. :-)

Thanks.

[EDUNEWES]

This is very very wonderful... Amazing job

Sucess for u Walt Noon

by Eduardo Neves .'. from Brazil

[noonco]

@EDUNEWES Thank you SO much! You've made my day. :-)

[TuangPingfaVilunda]

OMG!! THANK YOU !!



for such a good invention :)

[noonco]

@TuangPingfaVilunda Thank you so much for checking it out, and taking the time to write!

[zagent]

Walt, thank you so much for sharing,

this was beautiful, great job

You are one of a kind.

Joe

(EnvisionMagic)

[frankly1970]

Amazingly helpful. I had spent and entire afternoon with a strobe and fan trying to get the right sort of effect for a Muybridge set of 16 baboon images. My baboons were laser cut on a thick paper disc and each shows a gradual shift. The problem I discovered is syncing things up. I will certainly try this method.

[noonco]

Yep, I could do that for sure if you like. I also had an idea for a simplified design that is "preset" to a certain burst rate rather than being adjustable that I could build faster/cheaper if you don't mind the focus set to a certain value. My email is nooncomp at yahoo dot com.

[rastAsia]

Would you be interested to build that 'reed switch' and LED 'focus strobe' circuitry for purchase? I wish I was good at electronics soldering and such! But I'd love to build one of this.. Thanks a lot for sharing this! You certainly need more credit on this.