Zoetrope Bench

“The zoetrope works because the eye holds each image — persistence of vision.” That explanation is rejected in the perception literature, and this page can do better than report the rejection: it runs the model and shows what it does instead.

Machine

Drum rate 3.0 rev/s

Slits 12

Pictures on the strip 12

Wheel rate 1.00 rev/s

Spokes 16

Flash rate 20.0 per second

Slit width / flash length 8% of the gap

Mark one spoke 0.0% brighter

The machine, as it really turns

What the eye is given

The sampler’s own luminance profile, unrolled — this is the array the engine cross-correlates