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*We don't actually remove the hood. It was still part of the exhibition and we did not want to risk upsetting it!

From my original video here: https://youtu.be/LOVzytir7bM

A huge thanks to Henry and Saul for having me along to see the exhibition. And to you fine people who support me so I can make these videos! Because of you I was able to go to Edinburgh with a camera guy and film this video, along with two other videos with Henry which will be out soon!

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Under the Zoetrope Hood*

*We don't actually remove the hood. It was still part of the exhibition and we did not want to risk upsetting it! From my original video here: This video is the Patreon bonus content! Or You asked me/Peter/Henry about the zoetrope and we’ve sent you this link trying to be helpful. Peter Reid built the Zoetrope, here is his FUSION page: http://www.scifun.ed.ac.uk/fusion/fusion-team.html If you are interested in building your own, then send Peter an email and he can help you out!

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Zane Da Magic Puffer Dragon

I love a good Zeotrope!!! The one at Disney California Adventure with the Toy Story gang as 3D figurines running around, jumping, and even twirling a lasso!!! By far one of my (and my kids) favorite Zeotropes!!!

Lucas Werkmeister

Did you have to do anything special to make the Zoetrope work on video or did the camera framerate perfectly match the rotation speed already?

Matt Parker

That's great: I didn't know Disney had made some. Of course they have. This was the first 3D zoetrope I've ever seen.

Matt Parker

We just tried loads of cameras and settings until we got lucky with a frame rate. For the Asteroids video we had special cameras. For this we decided to chance it!

Rémy GRANDIN

I was expecting it to be a simple timer for the strobe lightn not all that detection machinery.. actuelly, i'm quite impressed, that's quite a piece of engenering in the end !

Jake Palmer

I live in Edinburgh and I somehow missed this. Damn it. I should get out more.

Matt Parker

Yes: I also thought it would have adjustable timing somewhere. But the magnet + switch combination, while a lot of set-up, is much more versatile/robust once it's working. Peter did an amazing job with it.

Matt Parker

I tried to tweet about it but it's hard to promote stuff like this to the right audience.

Jake Palmer

You need a Matt signal! A Parker square™ beamed into the sky.