1858 in animation

none Events in 1858 in animation. Events April: John Gorham patented his Kaleidoscopic colour-top.April 2020 This is a top on which two small discs are placed, usually one with colors and a black one with cut-out patterns. When the discs spin and the top disc is retarded into regular jerky motions the toy exhibits "beautiful forms which are similar to those of the kaleidoscope" with multiplied colours. Gorham described how the colours appear mixed on the spinning top "from the duration of successive impressions on the retina". Gorham founded the principle on "the well-known experiment of whirling a stick, ignited at one end" (a.k.a. the sparkler's trail effect).https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrdbAAAAcAAJ Gorham John The Rotation of Coloured Discs January 1859 His device was based on the concept of the persistence of vision, a suggested explanation for motion perception in optical toys like the phenakistiscope and the zoetrope, and later in cinema.https://books.google.com/books?id=MCtbAAAAcAAJ&q=persistence+of+impressions&pg=PA571 A Cyclopædia of the Physical Sciences 1857 John Pringle Nichol Richard Griffin and Company 29 October 2017 Google Books Specific date unknown: The physicist Joseph-Charles d'Almeida published descriptions of two methods that he had successfully developed to project stereoscopic images. The first was an anaglyph method with red and green glasses, the second used the stroboscopic principle to alternately present each picture to the corresponding eye in quick succession. D'Almeida had started work on combining this method with the principles of the phenakistiscope.https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k111368q Bulletin de la Société française de photographie 1858 Gallica en 2020-04-10 In France, Joseph-Charles d'Almeida delivered a report to l'Académie des sciences. He described how to project three-dimensional magic lantern slide shows using red and green filters to an audience wearing red and green goggles.D'Almeida Joseph Charles Nouvel appareil stéréoscopique fr A New Stereoscopic Device 61 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3004t/f61.image image Lecture Gallica 1858 Subsequently, he was chronicled as being responsible for the first realisation of 3D images using anaglyphs.Picard Emile La Vie et L'œuvre de Gabriel Lippmann (membre de la section de physique générale) fr The Life and Work of Gabriel Lippmann 3 https://www.academie-sciences.fr/pdf/dossiers/Picard/Picard_pdf/Picard_Lippmann.pdf Public Lecture academie-sciences.fr Institut de France. Académie des Sciences December 14, 1931 The Hungarian engineer S. Pilcher introduced the Astrometeoroscope or Astrometroscope: a large slide that projected a lacework of dots forming constantly changing geometrical line patterns, compared with stars and meteors. It used a very ingenious mechanism with two metal plates obliquely crossed with slits that moved to and fro in contrary directions. Except for when the only known example was used in a performance, it was kept locked away at the Polytechnic so no one could discover the secret technique. When the Polytechnic auctioned the device, Picher eventually paid an extravagant price for his own invention to keep its workings secret.https://archive.org/details/cu31924031248051 The book of lantern; being a practical guide to the working of the optical (or magic) lantern; with full and precise directions for making and colouring lantern pictures Thomas Cradock Hepworth 22 May 1888 London : Wyman & Sons Internet Archivehttps://books.google.com/books?id=xiYynDew1pUC&q=astrometroscope&pg=PA168 Popular Educator a Complete Encyclopaedia of Elementary, Advanced, and Technical Education 22 May 2018 Cassell Google Books The English American artist George Henry Burgess resumed his search for gold. Burgess followed the Fraser River Gold Rush in British Columbia, voyaging upriver by canoe. He sold one of his paintings to Governor James Douglas."The Bay of San Francisco", p. 184. Burgess returned with many sketches, which he then transferred to glass and exhibited by magic lantern show."Fraser River Delineated", 28 October 1859. References Sources The Bay of San Francisco: The Metropolis of the Pacific Coast and its Suburban Cities. A History II Chicago The Lewis Publishing Company 1892 184–185 https://archive.org/details/baysanfrancisco01compgoog/page/n204/mode/2up Internet Archive Fraser River Delineated Daily National Democrat Marysville, California 28 October 1859 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91714552/george-henry-burgess-sketches-of-the/ 2 January 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220103220809/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91714552/george-henry-burgess-sketches-of-the/ 3 January 2022 live Newspapers.com Category:1850s in animation Category:1858 in mass media Category:1858 in the arts