"phenakistoscopic" meaning in English

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          "text": "A modified form of the phenakistoscope, in which the usual figures of horsemen, &c., are replaced in the revolving disk by a double set of highly-coloured circular arcs, all passing through the centre of motion, and intersecting each other, pair and pair, in such a way that the limbs exhibit a slightly different relation in each successive pair, on the same principle as ordinary phenakistoscopic figures are arranged.",
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          "ref": "1865 October 16, Henry Mayhew, “On Stereoscopic Phenakistoscopy. To the Editor of the Photographic Journal.”, in Hugh W[elch] Diamond, editor, The Photographic Journal, Being the Journal of the Photographic Society of London. […], volume the ninth, number 162, London: Taylor and Francis, […], page 171, column 2",
          "text": "Dear Doctor [Henry G. Wright],—I heard nothing of Mr. [Antoine] Claudet’s paper on the possibility of producing a series of phenakistoscopic figures by means of photography, nor yet of the probability of rendering such appearances more life-like by means of the stereoscope.[…]The phenakistoscopic effect was produced in this wise:—I prepared a kind of paddle-wheel in card-board, with half a dozen floats to it, and upon the front of each of these six floats I pasted one of the stereoscopic pictures—say that intended for the left eye.",
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          "ref": "2007, Ray Zone, “The Peep Show Tradition”, in Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838–1952, The University Press of Kentucky, page 29",
          "text": "Also like his peep show forebears, [Émile] Reynaud was interested in stereoscopic moving pictures. To display them, he reverted to phenakistoscopic technology using two drums, each carrying a separate-eye view of the movement.[…]With the phenakistoscopic disk, the left- and right-eye pictures, because they were vertically stacked, did not have equal radii and did not rotate at quite the same speed.",
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        "Of or relating to the phenakistoscope."
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          "text": "A modified form of the phenakistoscope, in which the usual figures of horsemen, &c., are replaced in the revolving disk by a double set of highly-coloured circular arcs, all passing through the centre of motion, and intersecting each other, pair and pair, in such a way that the limbs exhibit a slightly different relation in each successive pair, on the same principle as ordinary phenakistoscopic figures are arranged.",
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          "text": "Dear Doctor [Henry G. Wright],—I heard nothing of Mr. [Antoine] Claudet’s paper on the possibility of producing a series of phenakistoscopic figures by means of photography, nor yet of the probability of rendering such appearances more life-like by means of the stereoscope.[…]The phenakistoscopic effect was produced in this wise:—I prepared a kind of paddle-wheel in card-board, with half a dozen floats to it, and upon the front of each of these six floats I pasted one of the stereoscopic pictures—say that intended for the left eye.",
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