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animation  

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  • The illusion of movement created by means of an inanimate object. This illusion is created by what Peter Mark Roget referred to as persistence of vision—after seeing an image, human beings retain it through the afterimage, which creates the appearance of continuity and movement. [Source: The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences; Animation]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/animation

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