Thaumatrope: Bird and the Cage

Thaumatrope: Bird and the Cage

Persistence of vision:

Spinning the two images that are on each side of a flat surface causes your brain to remember the last image slit second after it is gone making you think both images are one.

Thaumatrope is a Greek word meaning “magic motion.

Here is an example diagram of “Bird and the Cage”.

Some information from: http://www.precinemahistory.net/1800.htm

Here is an example of a “Bird and the Cage I made: