Kinegrams: A New Way To Animate Still Images

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A kinegram is an animation medium based on the principle of vision persistence. Kinegrams artfully combine the visual effects of moiré patterns with the zoetrope animation technique. The earliest attempts of this technique date back to the French pre-cinema technique of “Ombro-Cinéma” in the late XIX Century.
The animated sequence is created when the complex image - the Kinegram - is viewed through an acetate overlay containing a solid black pattern printed on it. The blank spaces of the pattern being transparent, as the overlay is slid across the Kinegram, different sections of the Kinegram become visible... Your brain links this succession of appearing images together, creating the illusion of fluid motion.

Below are 3 kinegram projects involving cog wheels and gears that I have designed for Bosch Rexroth AG to be used as an exhibit at Motek trade fair.

You can magically make the gears rotate by just sliding a particular striped overlay across the image. As shown below. You can also try it by yourself here: http://giannisarcone.com/kinegram_gears1.html

In this project I used colors. Make the gears move and rotate by sliding a striped overlay across the image, try it here: http://giannisarcone.com/kinegram_gears2.html

You can see here how this colorful kinegram has been used to animate the pallet of a conveyor during Motek Trade Fair 2015 in Stuttgart. Kinegrams are excellent promotional exhibits!

The kinegram project below demanded more accuracy and precision to get a very smooth illusory motion effect. Make the cog wheels rotate by sliding a striped overlay across the image, try it here: http://giannisarcone.com/kinegram_gears3.html

Kinegrams are very versatile and can be used in books, animated cards, works of art, interior design, and on many other products.
More information about the kinegrams:

http://giannisarcone.com/Kinegrams.html

http://giannisarcone.com/Kinegrams_Project.pdf