Crayolascope is a rudimentary 3D display hacked together from several Glow Books, a light-up play on a flip-book from the titular company.

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In many ways this is analogous to a flip-book, where a collection of stills, when played (or "flipped") in quick succession, created a fluid moving image.

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Mr. Truffaut uses all manner of quirky techniques, from old-fashioned irising in or out of an image to shots that are frozen in the midst of movement, creating a flip-book effect.

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There are photographs of objects and places, children's scribblings, typing overlapped with typing until it becomes illegible, and -- in a finale controversial among critics -- a flip-book of a falling man.

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Their far-flungedness title surfaced in "Flip Flop Fly Ball, " a book of baseball trivia and history by Craig Robinson published last year.

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