Sand animation

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Invention

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Sand animation is a form of stop motion that manipulates images formed with sand under a camera to create animation. A sand animator will make incremental changes in the sand, taking one frame with each change to create a sequence of movement.

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Image: Katrin Weißensee, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.