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From: llizard <cq547@freent.toronto.on.ca>
Subject: Re: horse gaits
Date: 1998/02/22
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In article <34ED79F0.5E88@freent.toronto.on.ca>, llizard wrote:
> 
> In article <34EC50BF.733D497D@wing.rug.nl>, Shimrod <csg824@wing.rug.nl>
> wrote:
> >
> > llizard wrote:
> > >
> > > Some time ago, in alt.ascii-art, in article
> > > <CJ90cnAQQ8w0EwpO@xemu.demon.co.uk>, Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine
> > > <DevNull@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Has anyone done an animation of animals showing all the real-life
> > > > four legged walking patterns ("gaits"), which can all be observed
> > > > in domestic cats if you have cats at home.
> > > >
> > > > (A) SLOW WALK.  The legs  act in diagonally opposite pairs:
> [snip]
> > > > (B) TROT.  If it was a pantomime horse the front and back back
> [snip]
> > > > (C) CANTER. The left front and rear go forward in step as the
> [snip]
> > > > (D) GALLOP. Both rear legs scissor forward together as both front
> [snip]
> > > > There is also (E) FOUR LEGGED HOP [PRONKING].  Speaks for itself:
> > > > hop vertically in the air on all foutr legs at once.
> > >
> > > With the help of Shimrod (what am I saying? It's entirely his
> > > Javascripting!), all the gaits (except pronking) are now viewable
> > > if you have Netscape Navigator 3.01 or MSIE 4.0 with the Javascript
> > > enabled at:
> > >
> > > http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/horsegaits.htm
> >
> > I've refined the animation some more, and added pronking at:
> >
> > http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod/asciiart/llizardhorse.html
> >
> > Greetz,
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>         ha
> ^^^^%---  ha
>  "   \ ha
> 
> Hilarious.
> 
> I am in danger of losing my head once again. I will make an attempt at
> pronking on my page when I get a chance.
[snip]

Well, I made the attempt. I'm not sure that it's much more convincing
than yours, Shimrod.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/horsegaitsinclpr.htm


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