Re: horse gaits

llizard wrote:
> 
> Some time ago, in alt.ascii-art, in article
> <CJ9...@xemu.demon.co.uk>, Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine
> <Dev...@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:
> > 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
> 

I've refined the animation some more, and added pronking at:

http://fmf.ml.org/~shimrod/asciiart/llizardhorse.html

Greetz,
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