we've always been trying to make the pictures move, the idea of animation is aeons older than the movies
or television. here's quick history:
over 35,000 years ago, we were painting animals on cave walls , something drawing four pairs of legs to show motion.
in 1600 BC the egyptian pharaoh rameses II built a temple to the goddess Isis which had 110 columns
Ingeniously ,each column had a painted figure of the goddes in a progressively changed position. to horsemen or charioteers riding past- Isis appeared to move
or television. here's quick history:
over 35,000 years ago, we were painting animals on cave walls , something drawing four pairs of legs to show motion.
in 1600 BC the egyptian pharaoh rameses II built a temple to the goddess Isis which had 110 columns
Ingeniously ,each column had a painted figure of the goddes in a progressively changed position. to horsemen or charioteers riding past- Isis appeared to move
the ancient greeks sometimes decorated pots with figures in succesive stages of action.
Spinnging the pot would create a sense of motion.
as far as we know , the first attempt to project drawings onto a wall was made in 1640 by
athonasius kircher with his 'magic lantern'.
Kircher drew each figure on separate pieces of glass which he place in his apparatus and projected
on a wall. then he moved the glass with strings, from above. one of theses showed a sleeping man's head and a mouse.
the man opened and closed his mouth and when his mouth was open the mouse ran in
Post a Comment