Group Assignment : Colour Wheel (Building a Zoetrope)

For color theory, we were asked to build a large 3D model relevant to the colour wheel. My group, after several discussions came up with an idea to create a zoetrope,where the animations were  based on colour wheel,which was a quite interesting model to be made.

My group members were Annabel, Aina, Atiqah, Jie Han, Hidaya and myself. :)

Everyone must be wondering what a zoetrope would look like! So here we go, let's see How does a zoetrope look like and how does it work.

Zoetrope

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Not to be confused with Zoopraxiscope.

For other uses, see Zoetrope (disambiguation).

A modern replica of a Victorian zoetrope

A zoetrope is a device that produces the illusion of motion from a rapid succession of static pictures. The term zoetrope is from the Greek words ζωή(zoē), meaning "alive, active", and τροπή (tropē), meaning "turn", with "zoetrope" taken to mean "active turn" or "wheel of life".

The zoetrope consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. On the inner surface of the cylinder is a band with images from a set of sequenced pictures. As the cylinder spins, the user looks through the slits at the pictures across. The scanning of the slits keeps the pictures from simply blurring together, and the user sees a rapid succession of images, producing the illusion of motion.

Animation for the Zoetrope