"persistence of vision"

[Dave Monroe]

... reminds me, Jorge Luis Borges, "Funes the Memorious," pick yr
translation and/or anthology.  Or click on this handy hyperlink ...

http://www.bridgewater.edu/~atrupe/GEC101/Funes.html

Also very Eadweard Muybridge (and I'm using a Muybridge postcard as a
bookmark) and/or Jules-Etienne Marey.  See Francois Dagognet,
Etienne-Jules Marey: A Passion for the Trace (which reminds me as well,
that Derridean [...] "trace"), as well as Marta Braun, Picturing Time:
The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey, 1830-1904 on, duh, the latter.  Or,
again, the following ...

http://www.expo-marey.com/ANGLAIS/indexGB.htm

http://access.tucson.org/~michael/hm_1.html

http://linder.com/muybridge/

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/muybridge_eadweard.html

For example ...




Jeremy Osner wrote:

> Dave Monroe wrote:
>
> >  Handy online summary at
> > http://www.grand-illusions.com/percept.htm.
>
> Particularly liked this statement, from Joseph and Barbera Anderson:
>                     "There is no motion on the screen,
>                      just a succession of still images. If
>                      there were persistence of these
>                      images in the eye of the viewer,
>                      figures on the screen would pile up,
>                      one on top of the other, resulting in a
>                      kind of chronophotographic display."
> -- in other words "trails".