• Artists and optical instruments

Did artists use optical instruments, and which ones? is there a link between them and pictorial vision?

• Optical instruments simulating motion and the prehistory of the cinema
  
  • The precursors of the cinema: Research into optical illusions has developed recently as research into the precursors of the cinema.

Optical tools are simulations of vision not only for the definition of space and shapes, but also for colour effects, and transition effects.

see our lesson on 'Motion in art'

grand illusions

• From shape to colour and transition: paper to digital
  •  Colours and 'dissolve' effects

see the Bill Douglas Centre: Dean's New Book of Dissolving Views (London , 1930s)

• 'Dissolve effects' in digital media

see transition effects in slide-shows

A 'Venetian blind' effect from the cd-rom Georgian Cities