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[-] mister_flibble@lemm.ee 31 points 3 days ago

Fun fact, it's actually been theorized that overlapping cave paintings like that were essentially a rudimentary form of animation, as flickering firelight would create the illusion of movement.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ice-age-artists-may-have-used-firelight-to-animate-carvings-180979943/

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago

I appreciate that you stated it in a way that the fun fact is there's a theory, and not that the theory was definitive fact. But it definitely seems plausible.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

what a rollercoaster of emotions: "please just have a video- oh they do! great. oh hold on that's a terrible video that shows absolutely nothing and just gives me a headache with its 5 frames per second, why did they even bother?"

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Look for a documentary called "Cave Of Forgotten Dreams" by Werner Herzog, about this cave.

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