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Zoetrope

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A modern replica of the Victorian Zoetrope [4]

The Zoetrope is a cylinder shaped device with slits cut through the side vertically. It works similarly to the Fantascope using the same premise of viewing the images that are banded to the inside of the Zoetrope through the slits so that the images give off the illusion that they are producing motion. Here is an example of what it would be like to view the images through the slits. [10]

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