Patent ID: 8482714

Claim:
A stroboscopic animation system comprising: a handheld stroboscopic light with a light source, means for actuating the light source to emit stroboscopic flashes with a stroboscopic frequency, and means for adjusting the stroboscopic frequency of the flashes emitted by the light source; a manually rotatable top with an upper surface, a lower surface, and a protuberance that projects concentrically from the bottom surface of the rotatable top for facilitating a spinning of the top; and means for retaining images to be animated on the upper surface of the top; whereby images retained on the upper surface of the top can be animated by a manual rotation of the top to cause the top to rotate upon the protuberance at an angular speed and a stroboscopic illumination of the images by the light source of the stroboscopic light and whereby the stroboscopic frequency of the handheld stroboscopic light must be progressively adjusted to achieve stroboscopic animation in response to a progressively slowing angular speed of the manually rotatable top.