Improvements

I tried to make the phenakistoscope work by making the balloons clearer to see (defined with a darker colour) and also by making a mask to concentrate the eye to one section. It did help a little. You can still see movements from in a circular movement rather than the illusion that the balloon is going down. I think this would be improved by the record player spinning faster or having a smaller mask over it in a vertical line instead of a triangle. I think the mask would have to be the width of the balloon to fully achieve this.

Seeing as I can't make my record player go any faster, I though I would make a design for a phenakistoscope that used the outer sections (as they travel a greater distance in the same amount of time) therefore these parts would go faster? That's what I hoped anyways.



I tried again with the triangle mask. Simply not fast enough.



I tried a vertical linear mask. It does work better but needs to be thinner.