Phenakistoscopic

Quick meaning: Phenakistoscopic is an adjective meaning Of or relating to the phenakistoscope.

Meaning

Of or relating to the phenakistoscope.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• phenakistiscopic

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include phenakistiscopic, phakoscopic, kinetoscopic, phenetic, kinescopic, phonautographic.

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