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"The thing that I'm most interested in at the moment is the so-called Infinite Energy solution - the possibility of finding new ways of tapping into virtually limitless sources of energy."
- Arthur C. Clarke

Kinotrope  
  Small bits of painted wood in a grid that spin around to form different pixelated images.  

A mechanical frieze, a slow sort of kinotrope for Aaron's adverts, made all of little bits of painted wood, clicking about each in turn, behind leaded sheets of bevel-glass.
Technovelgy from The Difference Engine, by William Gibson (w/B. Sterling).
Published by Gollancz in 1990
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