Both that article and the linked above have confusing dates in them. In one paragraph it talks about a timeline of 5 centuries ago while in others 4000 years.
The linked article above talks about a timeline of 5200 years but also second and third century BCE. Is there some strange translation error going on or is the same sort of typo seeping into both?
There's also a hypothesis that the multiple superimposed legs drawn on certain cave paintings is a proto-animation. For example the boar from Altamira whose legs are in various poses of its stride.
I associate cubism with multiple viewing angles of a single thing, as opposed to multiple things viewed from a single angle. But definitely agreed that cubism was a rediscovery of a lot of earlier artistic traditions of interpretation that fell out of favor during the ascendance of "realism."
I could imagine someone spinning a pottery wheel to see the animation moving. Wikipedia cites the slow wheel as being invented 4500 BC, so that seems possible.
The rotate-on-pottery-wheel idea requires a slit to view through? But that's not hard to imagine doing back then - hold up your two hands pinkies together with a gap.
I think you also need some sort of shutter or intermittent light source to actually see the illusion of animation. You could do this by rapidly opening and closing the gap between your fingers.
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ice-age-artist...
The site is also the earliest known example of a prosthetic eyeball: https://iranparadise.com/shahr-e-sukhteh/
The linked article above talks about a timeline of 5200 years but also second and third century BCE. Is there some strange translation error going on or is the same sort of typo seeping into both?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahr-e_Sukhteh#Finds