Page Layout / Optical Devices

Page layout :

In my opinion the site, the layout page of the site, seems too clutterd for me, if the just spread they're stuff out and added alot more pages it wouldnt be so bad.







Optical devices:  LINK:http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/html/exhibit07.htm
This image is called the phenakistoscope.

HOW IT WORKS:
The phenakistoscope uses the persistence of motion principle to create an illusion of motion.  Although this principle had been recognized by the Greek mathematician Euclid and later in experiments by Newton, it was not until 1829 that this principle became firmly established by Joseph Plateau. 

WHAT I FIND INTERESTING:

I find it interesting that the phenakistoscope is just a small circle piece of paper that has little drawings on it that create a little short clip, i just think of it as film, and the very first film to be created was in 1878, that film was known as "The horse in motion" when you watch it it looks just like a stop motion animation video, so inspirational.


THE HISTORY OF  ITS ANIMATION:
In 1832, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau and his sons introduced the phenakistoscope ("spindle viewer").  It was also invented independently in the same year by Simon von Stampfer of Vienna, Austria, who called his invention a stroboscope.  Plateau's inspiration had come primarily from the work of Michael Faraday and Peter Mark Roget (the compiler of Roget's Thesaurus).  Faraday had invented a device he called "Michael Faraday's Wheel," that consisted of two discs that spun in opposite directions from each other.  From this, Plateau took another step, adapting Faraday's wheel into a toy he later named the phenakistoscope. 

This is all important because from what i understood they all got they're ideas from one another and they were all inspired by one another which meant more inventions to come, that is why i find it important.