Phenakistoscope

I’ve always been fascinated by early animation devices. The way spinning disks exploit the persistence of vision to leave a continuous trail of motion—much like the stroboscopic effect on vinyl records. To me, this ancient form of animation creates an illusion that feels more solid, textured, and magical than modern digital video.

Using TouchDesigner, I recreated this mechanism. I used a Feedback loop to virtually “burn” the animation frames onto the disk’s texture. When spun faster than the eye can track, the static images merge into movement. Think of it as an ancient GIF.

created using @touchdesigner

audio sampled / distorted from Vinyl record of Nala Sinephro

#interactive #audiovisual #touchdesigner #newmediaart

This one is built on 6 shared modules: Cinematic_POSTFX_251204, VisualFrame_251214, base_Phenakistoscope_251224, base_audio_251201, basic_3d_render_251224, work_capturer_251213. The six digits in a module name are the day it was made; the same module appearing across works is the lineage of this series.