Phenakistoscop

The Phenakistoscop was designed similar to the Zoetrope following the Zoetropes creation.

"The basic like drum-like form of the zoetrope was created in 1830's by a British mathematician William George Horner he was aware of the recently developed and closely related phenakistoscope disc."

The phenakistoscop was an early animation tool/device that functioned using a spinning disk of images spinning in sequence to one another closely crossing paths and merging with one another to create an illusion of motion.

"The phenakistoscope used a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle. Arrayed around the disc's center were a series of drawings showing phases of the animation, and cut through it were a series of equally spaced radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the disc's reflection in a mirror. The scanning of the slits across the reflected images kept them from simply blurring together, so that the user would see a rapid succession of images that appeared to be a single moving picture. A variant of it had two discs, one with slits and one with pictures; this was slightly more unwieldy but needed no mirror. Unlike the zoetrope and its successors, the phenakistoscope could only practically be used by one person at a time."

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenakistoscope"

 

The phenakistoscope – a couple waltzing

A phenakistoscope disc byEadweard Muybridge (1893)