Flip books are a fun project that a lot of kids haven’t seen. Flip books even teach a little about animation and perception. They do take time and patience to complete, but aren’t messy, and don’t need many supplies. A flip book is simply pages with a series of drawings. Each drawing is changed incrementally, so that when the pages are flipped it looks as if the drawing is moving. What happens is that the image your eye sees stays in your perception a fraction of time longer than the actual picture does. This is called “persistence of vision”. Because … Continue reading →