Universal Principles of Design, Updated and Expanded Third Edition
by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler
010 Apparent Motion
The illusion of motion created when images are displayed in rapid succession.
Apparent motion is the appearance of real motion that occurs when similar still images are presented in rapid succession. The visual system fills in the gaps of time and space between the images to create the illusion of real motion. The effect can be created by changing the position or orientation of objects across images or by moving background elements around a fixed object. This is the basis for the illusion of motion in animations, flip-books, motion pictures, television programs, and zoetropes. When actors run across a movie screen, they are in apparent motion; when people in the theater walk in front of the movie screen, they are in real ...
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