3 ms·
Maybe something we can't even imagine at this point? Think about trying to explain animation to people in the late 19th century.
by maverick_iceman 10y ago
Maybe something we can't even imagine at this point? Think about trying to explain animation to people in the late 19th century.
- abecedarius 10y agoActually that's a pretty fun topic in tech history. You could buy short animations cheaply then, as flipbooks, and there were fancier types: viewed through a spinning cylinder, or projected. There were even 3d animations. See samples on youtube. Checking my memory just now I learned something interesting: the magic lantern was invented by Huygens in the 1600s, and he probably had a simple animation in mind -- he sketched a sequence of Death removing his own head.