X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,4fe385b8261392ee,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public From: llizard Subject: horse gaits Date: 1998/02/18 Message-ID: <34EB70E3.2E3D@freent.toronto.on.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 326390915 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: via Internetdirect, Canada; zone 5 (or is it 6A?) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation Some time ago, in alt.ascii-art, in article , Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine 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: > 1. LeftRear forward 2 RightFront 3 RightRear 4 RightFront, > in four time units the animal is one pace forward. > > (B) TROT. If it was a pantomime horse the front and back back > pairs would be exactly _out_of_ step i.e. the legs on the left > side scissor inwards as the legs on the right side scissor > outwards, then oppositely. The diagonally opposite pairs that > are _out_ do the work, hitting the ground and swinging over the > foot then lifting off the ground in their furthest back position. > > (C) CANTER. The left front and rear go forward in step as the > right front and rear go back in step, so there's a definite > side to side sway. > > (D) GALLOP. Both rear legs scissor forward together as both front > legs scissor back together, the forward legs hit the ground and > swing over the foot raising off the ground at the rearmos position > and swinging forward for the next stride. > > A-B-C-D are increasingly fast and demanding of energy. > > 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 NOTE: If you hit the reply button, add an "e" to the "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. -- / ha www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/ ~, \,^^%--- ha cq547@freenet.toronto.on.ca /)\~__> \ ha llizard aka ejm ' | \~_>^_ ~ _| )_\_( )~~~ / \| /_\ ejm98 \ /