The attention to detail here makes this zoetrope look like it’s actually from the animated movie. Each of Catbus’ many legs moves in perfect time, racing across the surface of the zoetrope. The real ...

This 60th anniversary zoetrope vinyl of A Charlie Brown Christmas delivers animated fun, solid sound, and a perfect last-minute gift for jazz fans.

Long before we had Disney animators and film projectors, we relied on a relatively simple invention called a zoetrope. It’s essentially a flipbook on a wheel. Countless frames spin round and round, ...

Before there was video, animation (i.e. moving images or at least the illusion of moving images) was possible, thanks to devices called zoetropes. This video of a LEGO Star Wars zoetrope explains the ...

You can't talk about the early days of the movies without hailing the seemingly magical existence of the zoetrope, the device that allows a viewer to peer at a series of spinning still images, one ...

A zoetrope is a charming piece of Victoriana, a device that gives the sensation of a moving image by exposing its successive frames through slits in a rotating drum. [Brian Corteil] however is not ...

Here’s a wonderfully neat project to perhaps spark some creativity as we head into this holiday weekend: the 3D printed Zoetrope. Take the concept of a flipbook — a series of frames displayed quickly ...

A zoetrope is a device that contains a disk full with a series of images that make up and animation. A couple of different methods can be used to trick the eye into seeing a single animated image. In ...

Your crowded train leaves the station and rumbles through the darkness, wheels screeching against a curve. It's just another morning commute. But then light and color rush in from outside from one of ...

An optical illusion popular in the 19th century could make trips on the Hyperloop appear to take place in a transparent tube. Regularly spaced, narrow windows wouldn’t offer much of a view ...