introduction to digital media
sequential images

the phenakistiscope (meaning: deceptive view)
invented simultaneously in 1831 by Joseph Plateau (Belgium) and Simon Stampfer (Austria)
a cardboard disc with slots around the edge, and drawings between the slots, was spun on an axle in front of a mirror
the zoetrope
invented in 1834 by George Horner, who called it a daedalum or daedatelum
a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides; on the inside of the cylinder, beneath the slits, is a band with sequential images
as the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures on the opposite side of the cylinder's interior
etienne jules marey
b. 1830 d. 1904
a surgeon who specialized in human and animal physiology, who later became professor of natural history
the inventor of the chronophotograph (1887), from which modern cinematography was developed
Marey used only one camera, and recorded multiple movements on one photographic plate
for studies of motion, Marey had his subjects wear black suits with metal strips or white lines
edweard muybridge
b. 1830 d. 1904
born in england, worked as a professional photographer in the united states
had a mobile dark room he called "the flying studio" and first worked under the trade name "helios"
used multiple cameras, placed in a line, with shutters triggered elecro-magnetically by movement of subjects
developed the zoopraxiscope in 1870 to create moving images of his still sequences
flip book
motion capture
the creation of a 3D representation of a live performance
software tools now allow animators to work with motion-captured data, editing and blending takes from multiple sessions
laszlo moholy-nagy
photograms made by placing objects on light-sensitive paper and exposing them to light without the use of a camera
stilling a moment

doc edgerton, corona, 1936