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The phenakistoscope ( 1832 ), zoetrope ( 1834 ) and praxinoscope ( 1877 ), as well as the common flip book, were early animation devices to produce movement from sequential drawings using technological means, but animation did not develop further until the advent of motion picture film.
* The fourth volume contains facsimiles of fantastic memories of evenings in which the reproduction of two models of fans, a DVD and a flip book were created for the occasion on the basis of a series of photographs taken by Disdéri studio.
It is scheduled to be released as an oversized slipcased hardcover that is bound in the flip book or tête-bêche format ( like an Ace Double ).
Take the other book, flip it 180 around x axis first, and 90 clockwise around z later.
On the flip side, The Omen appeared in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time by Harry Medved ( co-author of the Golden Turkey Awards ) and Randy Dreyfuss.
* The Velveteen Rabbit ( flip book with original illustrations ) at Internet Archive
By the age of five, MacFarlane knew that he would want to pursue a career in animation, and began by creating flip books, after his parents found a book on the subject.
The Mutoscope worked on the same principle as the " flip book.
A famous example of such a three-way coin flip ( choose two out of three ) is dramatized in Friday Night Lights ( originally a book, subsequently film and TV series ), where three high school football teams with identical records use a three-way coin flip – at a truck stop – to determine which two will advance to the playoffs.
* Bambi: The Story and the Film, accompanied by a flip book
They also produce a range of unusual dice ( such as a set that tells you what toppings to order on your pizza ), and currently hold the printing rights to the Ace of Aces and Lost Worlds flip book systems.
A flip book or flick book is a book with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page to the next, so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change.
Rather than " reading " left to right, a viewer simply stares at the same location of the pictures in the flip book as the pages turn.
The book must also be flipped with enough speed for the illusion to work, so the standard way to " read " a flip book is to hold the book with one hand and flip through its pages with the thumb of the other hand.
The German word for flip book — Daumenkino, literally " thumb cinema "— reflects this process.
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He was especially impressed by the flip side " Treat Me Nice " as this featured a piano.
However, its original purpose was to evade an opponent's floor sweep and flip to the antagonist's exposed side or it may be used as a double aerial kick to an opponent standing off to the side.
The game location was determined by rule of a coin flip that was conducted in mid-September.
The earliest PDP-8 model ( informally known as a " Straight-8 ") used diode-transistor logic, packaged on flip chip cards, and was about the size of a minibar-fridge.
If, the magnetization will not flip during the measurement, so the measured magnetization will be what the instantaneous magnetization was at the beginning of the measurement.
Second was Line Layout Manager where particular sequences of characters can be coded to flip to different designs in certain circumstances, useful for example to offer ligatures for " fi ", " ffi ", " ct ", etc.
It was the first Walkman phone in the series in a " flip phone " form factor.
The flip side was " Beverly Hills ", written by Dolenz.
Nevertheless, in 2008 ILM was still using the format in some production steps, such as for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and a VistaVision camera was used in the semi-trailer flip scene in The Dark Knight when there were not enough IMAX cameras to cover all the angles needed for the shot.
Another 32 yards ( 30 m ) shoreward of this line was a continuous line of 450 ramps sloping towards the shore, also with mines attached and designed to force flat-bottomed landing craft to ride up and either flip or detonate the mine.
The agreement was to open a fresh deck of cards, shuffle them and on the flip of a coin, begin taking turns flipping the cards until one turned over the deuce of clubs, making Cooley the first mayor and the name of the town.
The word Viracopos (" flip glasses ") was later used by the priest in sermons, referring to the event.
The audio tapes or discs came in a box that was designed to look like a cigarette box, including the flip top.
It was the first of many modern flip tricks to be invented by Rodney Mullen in the early 1980s.
This technique was quickly adopted by free skaters and later by street skaters, introducing skateboarding to the era of flip tricks, many of which Smith also created.
A new, faster version, with heavily distorted guitar and a high-energy keyboard solo from Nicky Hopkins, was recorded, and was relegated to the flip side of " Hey Jude ".
The flip side of this single was Louise Mandrell and RC Bannon singing " Christmas Is Just a Song for Us This Year ".
The flip side of his dedication was an often callous demeanour: Fay Wray, who worked under him on Mystery of the Wax Museum, said that, " I felt that he was not flesh and bones, that he was part of the steel of the camera ".
For the first six months, the flip side, " Blue Moon of Kentucky ", his upbeat version of a Bill Monroe bluegrass song, was slightly more popular than " That's All Right ( Mama ).

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Imus stayed with the station for most of the next two decades, except for a couple of years in the late 1970s when there was a general purge of the air staff and a short-term format flip to current-based based Top 40.
It is based on the coin flip used widely in sports and other situations where it is required to give two parties the same chance of winning.
On Halloween, all of the Arkham inmates except Calendar Man are released by Dent, based on the flip of a coin.
Freestyle changed significantly in the 1980s, when ollies and ollie based flip tricks were invented and introduced to the discipline.

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He saw the dark sweat spots flip in and out of sight under the patrolman's swinging arms and in the leather holster that swaggered and rolled at the side of his stocky body, the sun left a smoky shine on the narrow strip of blue metal that ran between the horned handles of his pistol.
If we insert vertices in random order, it turns out ( by a somewhat intricate proof ) that each insertion will flip, on average, only O ( 1 ) triangles – although sometimes it will flip many more.
To use other jumps on the back end of a combination, connecting jumps such as a half loop ( which is actually a full rotation, but lands on a left back inside edge ) can be used, enabling the skater to put a salchow or flip at the end of the combination.
" This massive audience response forced the record company to flip the songs, so that subsequent copies of the single listed the more popular song on the A-side.
Moreover, each bit of the input has a deterministic effect on each bit of the CRC32, that is one can tell without looking at the rest of the input, which bits of the output will flip if the input bit is flipped ; so care must be taken to use all 32 bits when computing the hash from the checksum.
* 1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
Lipid molecules can flip from one side of the membrane to the other, this process being catalyzed by flippases and floppases ( depending on the direction of movement ).
Booms in record sales returned after World War II as standards changed from 78s to vinyl long play records, which could contain an entire symphony, and 45s which usually contained one hit popularized on the radio, plus another song on the back or " flip " side.
The mechanism actuating the transition between these two states ( open or closed ) can be either a " toggle " ( flip switch for continuous " on " or " off ") or " momentary " ( push-for " on " or push-for " off ") type.
It is necessary to flip back the horizon mirror shade to be able to see the horizon, and then the fine adjustment screw on the end of the index bar is turned until the bottom curve ( the lower limb ) of the sun just touches the horizon.
* The flip jump is a toe jump that takes off from a back inside edge and lands on the back outside edge of the opposite foot.
His A29-192 Kittyhawk's engine failed on take off, causing the aircraft to flip at the end of the strip.
Thus, in order to simply flip through the possible values for a 128-bit symmetric key ( ignoring doing the actual computing to check it ) would theoretically require 2 < sup > 128 </ sup > − 1 bit flips on a conventional processor.
For example, if you were to bet $ 1 at 10 to 1 odds ( you could win $ 10 ) on the outcome of a coin flip, you would be getting " the best of it " and you should always make the bet ( assuming you are rational and risk-neutral with linear utility curves and have no preferences implying loss aversion and the like ).
As the player receives a card each round, he / she has to flip over one of his / her downcards on the count of three ( thus all players flip simultaneously ).
An analog clock with digital display ( commonly referred to as a " flip clock ") is a clock which displays information in a digital format on a split flap display, but actually keeps track of the time in an analog fashion.

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