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Experience the "persistence of vision" phenomenon behind movies by creating your own simple optical-illusion toy that combines two images into one!
Thaumatropes can be made from a card with a different image on each side, sandwiched around a stick. When you spin the stick quickly in your hands, the two images look like they’re combining to form a new, single image (like the images of a flip-book combining into a little movie). We’ll be creating this optical-illusion toy by drawing our own fun images that blend together.
The Ives Main Library, designed by renowned architect, Cass Gilbert in 1911, is a cornerstone of the historic New Haven Green. The facility is a community treasure and features unique design details, including several WPA-era murals. Ives is open 54 hours a week, Monday-Saturday, and houses major public service departments for children and teens as well as adult reference, a computer tech center and Ives Squared, a newly renovated space for innovation and entrepreneurship.
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