This design was possibly among the first 12 designs that Stampfer reportedly made between December 1832 and February 1833. The idea is rather close to Faraday's 1831 experiments with several zones of perforations in rotating discs, to look through at the reflection in the mirror that inspired both Plateau and Stampfer to use pictures instead. The holes in the outer rim as they would have featured in the original design (here carefully reconstructed from an 1868 illustration of a disc that may have been part of the original series) seem very similar to the dots in the printed pattern. The design presumably covered one side of the four double-sided discs that Stampfer published with Trentsensky & Vieweg on 2 May 1833, but not a single extant copy of those first discs has yet been located. This version of the design is known from a later edition with rectangular slits, distributed in England by James Black around August 1833. It was repeated without the asterisks and printed in blue, red and black variations for Trentsensky & Vieweg's second series.