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Project 3 | Inconvenience from Jessica Garcia on Vimeo .

As we walked through our tour of media production, something I quickly noticed is how our perception of movement and fluidity is constantly changing. The relationship between images and movement were almost unheard of before the discovery of many of the tools we talked about throughout the tour. The thaumatrope, for example, revolutionized how we interpret movement by providing us with a basic understanding of what components are needed to make this illusion of movement; images, speed, and a vision break. Images provide us with visual sense of what objects are in motion, and puts that movement into context. In this case, the thaumatrope presented us with a picture of a bird on one side, and a cage on the other, as two separate things. Next, you need motion. By spinning the disk, this creates the illusion that the bird and the cage are one in the same. But this wouldn't be at all possible without a vision break. Persistence of vision allows for our brains to put these images togethe...