> > > Are you sure it was galloping and not trotting? I always > thought it was trotting. You don't need a camera to see all a > horses feet off the ground (at once) when its galloping -- > it's pretty obvious. >
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm20.html http://www.artandphysics.com/c_main2a.html If you look at paintings of galloping horses before Muybridge you will see that the pattern of their legs is nothing like the pattern they really make. It's as if they are leaping from the both back legs at the same time and landing on both forelegs. We are now so familiar with photographs and slow motion movies of animals running that it is obvious to us. But it was clearly not obvious to everybody until Muybridge settled the question. Otherwise there would have been no controversy. Bob
