I am going to explain what a Zeotrope is used for and how it is used.
It is a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. Beneath the slits in the surface of the cylinder is a band which has either individual frames from a video/film or images from a set of sequenced drawings or photographs. As the cylinder spins the user looks through the slits at the pictures on the opposite side of the cylinder's interior. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together so that the user sees a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, the equivalent of a moton picture.Cylindrical zoetropes have the property of causing the images to appear thinner than their actual sizes when viewed in motion through the slits.
When you look on the top of the Zoetrope you cant see a patteren, but when you look throught the slits you have the complete opposits view because you can see a patteren and it looks like your picture is moving.
For example:
Sue made us make our own Zoetrope. Watch my little video and you can see that I did it step by step to show you how easy it was to make.
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