Premium Member Brad Grimmett Posted March 20, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted March 20, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adam Frisch FSF Posted March 20, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted March 20, 2007 I think on trot they do, but not in gallop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Alessandro Machi Posted March 20, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted March 20, 2007 Wow, I didn't know they had color film 120 years ago. It's been a while since I have seen the original pictures, but apparently a horse never "fully extends" all four legs off of the ground at the same time, the four legs are only off the ground when their legs are tucked under the horse, as shown above. This was a big deal back then because when artists showed a horse running at full gallop they would inevitable depict the horses four legs fully extended and all off the ground. Muybridge proved this never happens and apparently it was an embarrassment to some artists of that time. Eadweard Muybridge "Motion-picture photography is based on the phenomenon that the human brain will perceive an illusion of continuous movement from a succession of still images exposed at a rate above 15 frames per second. Although posed sequential pictures had been taken as early as 1860, successive photography of actual movement was not achieved until 1877, when Eadweard Muybridge used 12 equally spaced cameras to demonstrate that at some time all four hooves of a galloping horse left the ground at once. In 1877-78 an associate of Muybridge devised a system of magnetic releases to trigger an expanded battery of 24 cameras. The Muybridge pictures were widely published in still form. They were also made up as strips for the popular parlour toy the zoetrope "wheel of life," a rotating drum that induced an illusion of movement from drawn or painted pictures." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Wells Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 In fact Muybridge was heavily into digital, but it didn't catch on - no could say "workflow" without invoking raucous laughter... Seriously, Muybridge is our grandfather... -Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Marc Alucard Posted March 20, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted March 20, 2007 Here is a basic article on equine gait analysis: http://cvm.msu.edu/Dressage/Upload/Clayton.../USDF_Dec01.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Alessandro Machi Posted March 20, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted March 20, 2007 In fact Muybridge was heavily into digital, but it didn't catch on - no could say "workflow" without invoking raucous laughter...Seriously, Muybridge is our grandfather... -Sam If not for that bet about whether or not a horse has all four legs off ground and when, would motion pictures have not been discovered for a while longer, or was there parallel research going on in Europe? I wonder if any artists paintings actually lost value if the painting improperly depicted the way a horse runs, although nowadays, that same painting would probably now have exploded in value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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