Google, on Monday, honoured Belgian physicist Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau with a special doodle. The tech giant celebrated the 218th birth anniversary of the physicist who invented the phenakistiscope, a device that led to the onset of cinema by creating the illusion of moving images. The doodle is inspired by animated discs reflecting Plateau's style with different images and themes on various device platforms.

Google, on Monday, honoured Belgian physicist Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau with a special doodle. The tech giant celebrated the 218th birth anniversary of the physicist who invented the phenakistiscope, a device that led to the onset of cinema by creating the illusion of moving images. The doodle is inspired by animated discs reflecting Plateau's style with different images and themes on various device platforms.