Talk:Zoetrope

message: Text removed from the article by Andrewa 00:02, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: 'The zoetrope was invented in 1834 by William Horner, who called it a "daedalum" or "daedatelum". Horner based his device on the Phenakistiscope built in 1836 by Joseph Plateau.'
...I'm sorry, how do you base something off something that hasn't even been invented yet? Jachra 22:22, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  You steal the concept drawings. --Davémon 14:08, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ...What 

message: This too works by seeing still images through slits :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5W5JJXtqhw&NR=1
88.193.18.41 04:53, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  similar device 

message: I cut some details out of the paragraph on the BRAVIA-drome. It's interesting and all, but we don't need to keep repeating the word BRAVIA over and over; nor do we need the Motionflow trademark in here, since it isn't well supported by the cited references (is it Motionflow 200Hz, or 240Hz Motionflow? If I'm learning about zoetropes, and not buying a Sony TV, do I care?) Last, the statistic about the thing going 50km/h is just senseless, regardless of what the reference says. Perhaps the outer shell passes the viewer at 50km/h when it's rotating at just over 2 revolutions per second? The whatever-drome itself stays put unless it's being transported in its two 40ft trucks, in which case I'll bet it goes a lot faster than 50km/h. Keno (talk) 22:28, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sony marketing 

message: Prof. Squirrel (talk) 23:57, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: (Changed, and moved to the top by Josve05a.) -(t) Josve05a (c)  23:46, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image of linear zoetrope 

message: 'ζωή (zoe), doesn't means "life", means "alive" ("active"), it's an adjective that combines with tropé (a complete turn).Please, you only must to consult a greek diccionary...
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.43.204.236 (talk) 15:23, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: 83.43.204.236 inserted a false etymology. This has already been discussed elsewhere. --Omnipaedista (talk) 06:15, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

text: I've always known it as a zoötrope, and that's what dictionaries seem to call it. --Hugh7 (talk) 01:49, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology

message: I have taken the liberty of adding Stephen Herbert's outstanding online essay From Daedaleum to Zoetrope  (Part 1 and Part 2) to the "External Links" section and putting it right at the top. Well-illustrated, profusely referenced and a concise mother lode of information for editors looking to refine or expand this article.
Among other things, it demonstrates that while the linear zoetrope may well be something new under the sun (although I consider the application of the name "zoetrope" to a form so substantially different very debatable -- is a phenakistoscope disc a "flat zoetrope"?), the 3D zoetrope, with sculptural models instead of flat graphics (and using an actual traditional zoetrope, unlike the modern strobe-light-based creations), is certainly not. As to 3D of the stereoscopic kind, note the claim that Eadweard Muybridge was using a stereo-zoetrope to view the first photographic real-time 3D movie circa 1879, an antecedent overlooked in histories of that subject.
Herbert's site has valuable material about other pre-cinema animation devices as well. 66.249.172.16 (talk) 04:31, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Online gold mine 

message: Does the subsection about "Forza/Filmspeed" that was added last October -- seven months ago -- not strike anyone else as blatantly promotional? The three references are a YouTube video, an online puff piece that focuses on Jeff Zwart, who appears to be none other than the contributing user Gs44b (see the summary for this image upload), and a link to an article at autoweek.com which did not bring up any such article when I tried it. Even if a live and truly independent source can be supplied, the long press release now in place needs severe trimming or replacement by a freshly written brief summary. 66.249.172.16 (talk) 04:31, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spam alert 

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