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Psychology and The Train Illusion, Walk Cycles, and Induced Motion in Animation

by Philippe Vaucher • November 28, 2023 • 0 Comments

While the Lumière brothers’ film L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat (1896) enshrined the image of trains in film history, trains may also have played an essential role in the history of psychology and the scientific study of…

by Rufus Butler Seder • April 6, 2020 • 1 Comment

When a series of similar, yet progressively different still images are presented to the eye in rapid succession, we perceive the illusion of motion. That is how video and movies work. It is also how traditional and non-traditional animation toys…

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Tag Archive for illusion of motion

Psychology and The Train Illusion, Walk Cycles, and Induced Motion in Animation

by Philippe Vaucher • November 28, 2023 • 0 Comments

Methods of Image Substitution in Animation Devices

by Rufus Butler Seder • April 6, 2020 • 1 Comment