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Rudyard Kipling short story about fox huntin in Ethiopia: " At every half mile the horses and the donkeys jumped the water-channels--up, on, change your leg, and off again like figures in a zoetrope, till they grew small along the line of waterwheels. "
zoetrope
The zoetrope (pronounced ZOH-uh-trohp), invented in 1834 by William George Horner, was an early form of motion picture projector that consisted of a drum containing a set of still images, that was turned in a circular fashion in order to create the illusion of motion. Horner originally called it the Daedatelum, but Pierre Desvignes, a French inventor, renamed his version of it the zoetrope (from Greek word root zoo for animal life and trope for "things that turn.")
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many childrens nightlights work like a simple zoetrope.. they have two shades, each is fitted with vanes on the top. the vanes are angled differently so each shade, turns in alternate directions, from the heat of the lit bulb.
the shades are translucent, with opaque images, -the images travel round and round, the horse over the bush, the gate the river.. the fox always outpacing the horse...
they are rather hypnotic, really.. i am easily entertained... i like lava lamps too
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