Although film and animation have come quite a long way, there’s still something magical about that grandaddy of them all, the zoetrope. Thanks to persistence of vision, our eyes are fooled into seeing ...

The attention to detail here makes this zoetrope look like it’s actually from the animated movie. Each of Catbus’ many legs moves in perfect time, racing across the surface of the zoetrope. The real ...

The web changes fast, what you see today will be gone tomorrow. That ephemeral nature means that looking at information over time can be very difficult. Google's new visualization API attempts offer ...

Before there was video, animation (i.e. moving images or at least the illusion of moving images) was possible, thanks to devices called zoetropes. This video of a LEGO Star Wars zoetrope explains the ...

An optical illusion popular in the 19th century could make trips on the Hyperloop appear to take place in a transparent tube. Regularly spaced, narrow windows wouldn’t offer much of a view ...

Your crowded train leaves the station and rumbles through the darkness, wheels screeching against a curve. It's just another morning commute. But then light and color rush in from outside from one of ...

EXCLUSIVE: American Zoetrope has acquired screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, with Sofia Coppola set to adapt it with Andrew Durham. She will produce with Roman Coppola.

Long before we had Disney animators and film projectors, we relied on a relatively simple invention called a zoetrope. It’s essentially a flipbook on a wheel. Countless frames spin round and round, ...

A zoetrope is a charming piece of Victoriana, a device that gives the sensation of a moving image by exposing its successive frames through slits in a rotating drum. [Brian Corteil] however is not ...

Here’s a wonderfully neat project to perhaps spark some creativity as we head into this holiday weekend: the 3D printed Zoetrope. Take the concept of a flipbook — a series of frames displayed quickly ...

In just a couple days, the final Megadeth album will drop and the timer for the band’s end will officially start. Though the ...