Okay. I've taken a look. He did both trotting and galloping horses.
Don
Don Williams wrote:
Bob W wrote:
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
I still think it was trotting not galloping. I suppose a Google search
is in order.
Don
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