William Horner was an individual who had an understanding of animation and was also aware of other animation products out there like the phenakistocope, as a mathematician he decided to create his own invention which resulted in it being the zoetrope. He came up with this idea in 1833 taking his inspiration from the phenakistocope.
A zoetrope is an early device. It is a cylinder with slits in the side and a succession of images that can be viewed through the slits. When the zoetrope spins the speed produces the illusion of motion. zoetrope is an object that was used very early on. although it might seem complicated it is a very basic piece of equipment. The idea is to create the illusion that the pictures are moving creating a story, where it is actually a sequence of still images. It is a fairly basic design of a circle 3d cyclnder with slits on the outer side of it and the sequence of images in the inner side of it.
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| Example of what a zoetrope looked like and how it was used |
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