Light Painting, Performances and Media Art | LICHTFAKTOR. Lightwriting With Lichtfaktor. Light writing. Light writing is an emerging form of stop motion animation wherein still images captured using the technique known as light painting or light drawing are put in sequence thereby creating the optical illusion of movement for the viewer.[1] Technique[edit] Light writing is most akin to another form of stop motion animation known as direct manipulation animation. The technique is also reminiscent of the slitscan process already used in the 1960s. Recent history[edit] Though the technique was employed almost one hundred years ago by Pablo Picasso it has only recently been used for main stream advertisements.[2] Awareness of light writing was raised when Sprint Nextel unveiled an ad campaign featuring the effect in the summer of 2007.[3] See also[edit] Persistence of vision, a phenomenon which produces an effect in the brain that makes light writing "work".
Notes[edit] External links[edit] Lightwrite 2009. Lightwriting | TOFA | Chris Noelle.