Animation - Persistence of vision

The Persistence of vision is strips of still images can be seen in animation by the human eye at a certain rate. This creates the illusion. The Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of humans eye persists for one twenty-fifth of a second.

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Persistence_of_vision.html


Most animation is relied on the persistence of vision when a selection of images are played fast together. This is were your brain stores the image it saw previously long enough to see the images playing after as well.

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http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-a-clip-from-animation-doc-persistence-of-vision-and-come-watch-the-movie-with-us-this-friday-20130226