I think you're talking about a different book that I also have. It uses moire patterns to provide the illusion of water moving, wheels rotating and other effects. It's a brilliant idea, but it's not the same as scanimation.

Scanimation is literally an actual animation. I bought the Star Wars version and Luke battles Darth Vader with light sabres. The Milennium Falcon flies away from the Death Star. There is actual animated movement.

The moire books have images that don't have any actual movement, but moving the transparent layer over the images causes new lines to appear as the lines in the image intersect those on the transparency.

In a lot of ways, I like the moire books more because the drawings look like old fashioned copperplate illustrations with detailed fine lines. The Scanimation books are less detailed because multiple frames of animation are printed on a single page, divided up by the width of the window that they'll be seen in. That forces the images to be chunky without much detail.

If you're at a bookstore, look for the books because they are fascinating.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon