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Persistence of vision was discovered in the early 1800's. Our eye and brain retain a visual impression for about 1/30th of a second. Persistence of vision prevents us from noticing that a motion picture screen is dark about half the time, and that a television image is just one bright, fast, discrete dot sweeping the screen. Motion pictures show one new frame (still picture of the movie clip) every 1/24th of a second and the same frame is shown three times during this time period (Persistence, 2001). The eye retains the image of each frame long enough, giving an illusion of smooth, continuous motion. Animation uses exactly the same principle to render the idea of motion.
This led to such devices as the zoetrope, or "wheel of life." The zoetrope has a short, fat cylinder, which rotated on its axis of symmetry. Around the inside of the cylinder was a sequence of drawings, each one slightly different from the one next to it. The cylinder had long slits cut into...

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Title: History Of Animation
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1. History Of Animation
   

   History of Animation. Computers have totally changed ... farther technology can
   go. Animation will live on and more history will be made.

2. History Of Animation
   

   history of animation. ... The Pixar Animation Group made history on March 29, 1989, by
   winning an Academy Award for its animated short film, Tin Toy. ...

3. Animation
   

   ... Favorites were Felix the Cat ("Concise History of Animation" np), Mickey
   Mouse, and later Loony Toons ("Chuck Jones History" np). ...

4. Animation
   

   ... Favorites were Felix the Cat ("Concise History of Animation"np), Mickey
   Mouse, and later Loony Toons ("Chuck Jones History" np). ...

5. Computer Animator
   

   ... There are many different areas to of animation, computer animation is what this
   paper is about, history of animation and how it came to be and how to get there ...