Living pictures; their history, photoproduction and practical working. With a digest of British patents and annotated bibliography (1899)

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DIAGRAM ILLUSIONS. 41 thus endeavouring to meet the same difficulty which faces present-day constructors—namely, interruption (.>f light sensation. It will be seen the difference was that he endeavoured to present a continuous yet progressive image to the brain by means of images impressed alternately on the two eyes and overlapping in point of time; while at the present day there appears to be a tendency towards some method of projecting one Fig, 46. picture on the screen from one lantern before the previous view is shut off in the other, thus presenting a continuous picture equally to both eyes. Two other methods of changing the picture stand by themselves. The first is the Viviscope, Fig. 46, in which a band bearing a series of diagrams is in tight contact with a large cylinder except where a small interposed roller bears it off. This small roller travels round under the band, which remains stationary while