Data + Design Project

Live Animation of a Bicycle Wheel

Thursday 11.24.2011 , Posted by

As if by magic, these bicycle wheels by Katy Beveridge jump to animated life when filmed. How is this possible? Each frame of the video captures a still picture of the spinning wheel, so as the different sides of the cut out shapes pass they are captured in the same place creating the appearance of movement. It’s interesting to note that this can’t be seen with the naked eye… only when the wheel is captured on film does the effect appear. How cool too that one of Beveridge’s animations hit the front page of Reddit the other day. Well done! [Read more...]