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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or reminiscent of a zoetrope.

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Examples

  • Sutherland 'DJs' with home-made zoetropic discs, intricate concentric rings of illustrated frames, projecting fragments of looping images at 33, 45 and 78 rpm

    Boing Boing David Pescovitz 2011

  • The "Masstransiscope," installed in the New York City subways in September 1980, uses this zoetropic effect.

    Scientific American 2009

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