flip books

Sequential page animation

A flip book is a small book with a series of images that change slightly from page to page, creating the illusion of movement when you flip rapidly through the pages with your thumb.

The principle—persistence of vision—underlies all animation and cinema.

Children often make flip books in the margins of notebooks, drawing stick figures that appear to walk or dance.

Related

page corners · motion · zoetrope · kinetic art · early cinema · riffle · flickers · persistence of vision · optical illusion · frame-by-frame · moving pictures · thumb · filmstrips · intervals · sketches · cartoon strips · tactile experience · cartooning

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Opposites
animation technology

flip booksdigital animation

Computer-generated moving images

CGI · motion pictures · computer-generated imagery · cinema · film projector

media permanence/interactivity

flip booksstreaming media

Real-time internet content delivery

broadcast television · live performance

image presentation method

flip bookspaintings

Pictures made with pigment

posters · tableau

Family

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Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G