Persistence of vision | physiology | Britannica (original) (raw)
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animated films
In animation: Early history …entertainment, discovered the principle of persistence of vision. If drawings of the stages of an action were shown in fast succession, the human eye would perceive them as a continuous movement. One of the first commercially successful devices, invented by the Belgian Joseph Plateau in 1832, was the phenakistoscope, a… Read More
motion pictures
In film …the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement. Read More
In history of film: Origins …the optical phenomena known as persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon. The first of these causes the brain to retain images cast upon the retina of the eye for a fraction of a second beyond their disappearance from the field of sight, while the latter creates apparent movement between… Read More
television
In television: Human perception of motion …because the visual sense displays persistence; that is, the brain retains the impression of illumination for about one-tenth of a second after the source of light is removed from the eye. If, therefore, the process of image synthesis takes less than one-tenth of a second, the eye will be unaware… Read More
