Task 1- How do these techniques and early Pioneers impact on the future of stop motion?

Persistence of vision refers to an optical illusion that happens when the eye’s visual perception of an object does not stop for a period of time after the light coming from it have stopped entering the eye. By showing a series of images in quick, rapid succession, the viewer interprets them as a continuous moving image. Persistence of vision works as the human eye and the human brain can only process 10 to 12 separate images per second, keeping an image for up to a fifteenth of a second. If a different images replaces it in this period of time it will create the illusion of movement. Examples of this include the Phenakistoscope, which was a device that used images to create an illusion of fluid movement. It was marketed as a children’s toy and was extremely popular in it’s heyday. It was invented by Joseph Plateau in 1841, and consisted   The problem’s it presented where that it could only be used by one person at a time, unlike the Zoetrope and it successors. The Phenakistoscope has also influenced many animation techniques and devices even today, with the GIF working in an extremely similar way. While early designs were relatively simple, later versions of The Phenakistoscope included much more intricate and complex designs. Women danced and animals moved in short repeating animations.