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United States Google marks 218th birth anniversary of Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau with doodle
14 Oct 2019
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Google on Monday celebrated the 218th birth anniversary of Belgian physicist Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau.Plateau was the brain behind a device called phénakistiscope — which led to the birth of cinema by creating an illusion of a moving image.
The doodle is in the form of an animated disc, which represents Plateau's style. It was created by animator, filmmaker Doodler Olivia Huynh with inspiration and help from Diana Tran and Tom Tabanao.In his device, he used counter-rotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other.His fundamental research consisted of only 27 pages and made several fundamental conclusions — The effect of colours on the retina, mathematical research into the intersections of revolving curves (locus), the observation of the distortion of moving images, and the reconstruction of distorted images through counter revolving discs were some of the findings in his paper.
He also studied the phenomena of capillary action and surface tension.In 1872, Plateau became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
