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English
Etymology
From phenakistoscope + -ic.
Adjective
phenakistoscopic (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the phenakistoscope.
1856, “CHRO’MOTROPE, n.”, in John Ogilvie, editor, A Supplement to the Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and Scientific: , Glasgow, Edinburgh, London: Blackie and Son, , page 95, column 2:A modified form of the phenakistoscope, in which the usual figures of horsemen, &c., are replaced in the revolving disk by a double set of highly-coloured circular arcs, all passing through the centre of motion, and intersecting each other, pair and pair, in such a way that the limbs exhibit a slightly different relation in each successive pair, on the same principle as ordinary phenakistoscopic figures are arranged.
1865 October 16, Henry Mayhew, “On Stereoscopic Phenakistoscopy. To the Editor of the Photographic Journal.”, in Hugh W Diamond, editor, The Photographic Journal, Being the Journal of the Photographic Society of London. , volume the ninth, number 162, London: Taylor and Francis, , page 171, column 2:Dear Doctor [Henry G. Wright],—I heard nothing of Mr. Claudet’s paper on the possibility of producing a series of phenakistoscopic figures by means of photography, nor yet of the probability of rendering such appearances more life-like by means of the stereoscope. […] The phenakistoscopic effect was produced in this wise:—I prepared a kind of paddle-wheel in card-board, with half a dozen floats to it, and upon the front of each of these six floats I pasted one of the stereoscopic pictures—say that intended for the left eye.
2007, Ray Zone, “The Peep Show Tradition”, in Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838–1952, The University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 29:Also like his peep show forebears, [Émile] Reynaud was interested in stereoscopic moving pictures. To display them, he reverted to phenakistoscopic technology using two drums, each carrying a separate-eye view of the movement. […] With the phenakistoscopic disk, the left- and right-eye pictures, because they were vertically stacked, did not have equal radii and did not rotate at quite the same speed.