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[rookie1ja]

Check out this book of Magic Moving Images -Animated Optical Illusions-. (video)

Be amazed as you watch a horse gallop, cogs turning, bird flapping, 3d objects rotating, and many other familiar objects animating throughout the book. includes 26 optical animations to thrill and amaze.

More details can be found on the Magic Moving Images YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/magicmovingimages
or by searching for the ISBN: 1899618740 on any major UK internet book site.

[jiayueliu]

omg!, tha's the coolest book ever!

[mathemagister]

How does it work? I guess the lines in front hide the lines behind, showing a slightly different picture each time giving the illusion of movement.

[Brookey]

That gives me chills.

[moboo's pain]

the plastic card has thin black stripes inside it in changing width and if you noticed, all the pictures were made up of vertical lines. so parts of the picture that wernt supposed to move had thicker lines so that they always filled up the gaps and therefor did not appear to move.
the moving parts were narrower and each intended frame had certin width bars and the car alowed the appearence of one of those frames at once.

[moboo's pain]

the plastic card has thin black stripes inside it in changing width and if you noticed, all the pictures were made up of vertical lines. so parts of the picture that wernt supposed to move had thicker lines so that they always filled up the gaps and therefor did not appear to move.
the moving parts were narrower and each intended frame had certin width bars and the car alowed the appearence of one of those frames at once.

death is only a part of... screw it, if ur dead ur already screwed

[unreality]

that was awesome! genius idea, with the lines moving sideways to show only one part at a time.

[*soad*lover*]

That was awesome!!! I wonder where you can get the book

[raghu]

the plastic card has thin black stripes inside it in changing width and if you noticed, all the pictures were made up of vertical lines. so parts of the picture that wernt supposed to move had thicker lines so that they always filled up the gaps and therefor did not appear to move.
the moving parts were narrower and each intended frame had certin width bars and the car alowed the appearence of one of those frames at once.

That's how a 'Hologram' works

[pursuegreat]

it is quite interesting!
however, the principle of this phenomenon is very simple!