Muybridge and Zoetropes

[MythMath]

Back in the late 80's I was designing and building
justly-intoned (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_intonation) musical instruments along with optical
devices such as kaleidoscopes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope) and zoetropes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope)...
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With my new PC's video capabilities, I'm looking to update my
earlier experiments with protomotionpicture photography...

I've been working on rough drafts for a new project
that will utilize photo sequences by Eadweard Muybridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge)...

I'm scanning select photo sequences from this book:

http://images.alibris.com/isbn/9780486202044.gif
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=3044456&wauth=muybridge&matches=101&qsort=r&cm_re=works*listing*cover
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After scanning, I'll process the images before animating the sequences...

I'm also working up some musical scores to go along with the video clips...
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Here's a very basic sample from my first attempt:

http://s133.photobucket.com/albums/q48/MythMath/?action=view&current=shorthammers.flv
or:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkPmvEUNo1Q

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[Naomi]

Sounds really cool MythMath, hey the sample isn't loading.

That Muybridge book is really great, I should pick up a copy myself one of these days.

[MythMath]

The video clip is available now...

[MythMath]

Anibis,

I've been thinking about ways to take standard video footage
and processing it so it would resemble the Muybridge animation...

I would love to get some footage of you juggling,
unicycling a lemniscate path, ropewalking, etc... :yes:

Oh btw, you can wear more than just a codpiece... ;)
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Also check out this project about Muybridge: Tesseract:

http://tesseractfilm.com/roughs.html