How timely (the one with frogs leaping into a guy's mouth is cute, if a little gross):
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/these-proto-gifs-of-the-19th-century-put-todays-gifs-to-shame/280887/?utm_source=SFFB >From the *Atlantic *article: In 1832, the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau invented a device he called the phenakistoscope (from the Greek phenakizein, "to deceive or cheat")—a rod-mounted disc that, when spun, created the illusion of motion. There was also the thaumatrope, a double-sided card that simulated motion when it was twirled between two pieces of string. There was also, in 1879, Muybridge's famous zoopraxiscope. _____________________________________________ Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment University of West Florida Pensacola, FL 32514 Phone: (850) 857-6355 (direct) or 473-7435 (CUTLA) [email protected] CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/offices/cutla/ <http://uwf.edu/cutla/> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=47329 or send a blank email to leave-47329-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
