thaumatrope

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  1. An optical apparatus dependent for its effects upon the persistence of retinal impressions. It consists of a cylinder or disk upon which is depicted a series of images representing periodic phases of the same picture. When the disk or cylinder is rapidly revolved, the image of one phase persists while the image of the next falls upon the retina; so that the object seems to go through a series of movements.

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  • StarShipSofa strangehorizons - Strange Horizons thaumatrope - —  Bibliophile Stalker
  • I also follow @thaumatrope and read little 140 character slivers of science fiction stories. —  doggdot.us
  • The appearance of a blending of the stripes of colours on a rotating disc or top, of the formation of a ring of light by swinging round a piece of burning wood, and the illusion of the toy known as the thaumatrope, or wheel of life, all depend on this persistence of retinal impression. —  Illusions A Psychological Study
  • There is a sort of overlapping of the mental images, and so an appearance of continuity produced in some respects analogous to that which arises in the wheel-of-life (thaumatrope) class of sense-illusions. —  Illusions A Psychological Study
  • The friends of the zoötrope surely knew another little plaything, the thaumatrope. —  The Photoplay A Psychological Study
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  1. Irreg. for *thaumatotrope, from Greek θαῦμα(τ-), a wonder, + τρόπος, a turning.
 

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