phenakistoscopic

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Alternative forms edit

phenakistiscopic

Etymology edit

From phenakistoscope +‎ -ic.

Adjective edit

phenakistoscopic (not comparable)

Of or relating to the phenakistoscope.
- 1856, “CHRO’MOTROPE, n.”, in John Ogilvie, editor, A Supplement to the Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and Scientific: […], Glasgow, Edinburgh, London: Blackie and Son, […], page 95, column 2:
  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.
- 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:
  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.
- 2007, Ray Zone, “The Peep Show Tradition”, in Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838–1952, The University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 29:
  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.