Cartoons are the best! But you know the characters in them aren’t real… so how do they move around like that? Today’s experiment will teach you all about the different illusions animation uses to trick your brain and bring drawings to life!
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SOURCES:
http://www.randommotion.com/html/zoe.html
https://someinterestingfacts.net/how-do-zoetropes-work/
https://www.npr.org/2012/04/20/151047256/how-movie-makers-use-science-to-make-magic
http://brightbytes.com/collection/zoetrope.html
http://www.reframingphotography.com/content/animating-photographs
https://diy.org/skills/animator/challenges/2050/build-a-zoetrope
https://www.shareitscience.com/2017/01/diy-zoetrope-animation-steam-project.html
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Zoetrope
https://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-zoetrope-or-20/
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