Thaumatrope
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
A thaumatrope is a toy that was popular in Victorian times. A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to combine into a single image due to persistence of vision.
[edit]
See also
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Thaumatrope" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
