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Movie magic
The realism comes from the long and fruitful interaction between science and the cinema that can be traced back to the pioneering work more than a century ago of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge (the eccentric spelling of his first name was a deliberate homage to Anglo-Saxon style). More-advanced tetrapods, the amniotes (which include today's reptiles, birds and mammals), adopted a more efficient style of locomotion in which the body is held clear of the ground, a much more effective way of getting around on land than salamander-like slithering. In this study, the researchers used the same technique - in this case, high-resolution X-ray cinematography of modern animals including caimans, iguanas and salamanders - as a basis for overlaying images of skeletal elements in the digital domain, thereby constraining the movements of the digital models of Orobates to the realms of the possible.
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Muybridge and the riddle of locomotion
A biography of Eadweard Muybridge, famous for his invention of very fast photography, and his discovery of how animals and people run. Includes lenticular images of movement.
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Stephen Herbert (1951-2023)
A projectionist in London movie houses who became Head of Technical Services at the British Film Institute's South Bank facility, he found the time between constantly repairing exhibits in the heavily visited Museum of the Moving Image and managing the unruly schedule of projectionists in the National Film Theatre's three theatres to organize and edit (with Luke McKernan) the essential Who's Who of Victorian Cinema (BFI Publishing, 1996, as well as a website, .
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The Projectionists
Eadweard Muybridge is among the seminal originators of the contemporary world's visual form.Projectionists examines mostly unknown aspects of Muybridge's work: his period as a touring projectionist who enthralled audiences with unprecedented moving-images and his creation of a moving-image auditorium--long before cinemas--in which to project his.
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Muybridge : the eye in motion
Much of contemporary visual culture can be traced directly to the work of Eadweard Muybridge, photographer and film pioneer. His work is powered by an extreme obsessionality, excess and ordinariness that enabled him to negate all preconceptions and to re-conceptualize the dynamics of corporeal and urban forms. He created a moving-image projector, the Zoopraxiscope, for his sequences of human and animal movement, thus construction the first identifiably cinematic space for his images' projection to spectators--Edited summary from back cover.
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Microbial Scale and the Undoing of Vision
GPS-harnessed wild birds migrating between two distant lakes in mainland China may seem at first glance to function in continuity with this lineage of scientific vision. Since at least 2012, these wild birds have been captured around two lakes in mainland China, harnessed with GPS devices, and then returned to their migrating flocks.1 The GPS devices on the birds allow researchers to track the migratory flyways of their flocks, with their pathways transcribed as bright lines superimposed over satellite images of a map (Figs. 1a and 1b). [...]all of this collected data is used to produce a data visualized risk map (Fig. 2). In 1989, as the Cold War was reaching an end, American scientists and security experts turned their attention toward more amorphous and diffuse global threats, including the risks posed [ Image omitted: The zoomed-in details of the risk map (shown in the lower register of the image as, in the right square, a solid block of turquoise, or on the left, pixels of color excerpted from the larger map) deepen this sense that we are seeing an image of optical straining—of looking too hard at a scene that does not disclose—to the point that vision breaks down (Fig. 3).
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In brief
Exhibition Animating images In the mid-19th century, portrait photographers used iron neck braces to steady their subjects and ensure that they remained static for the time required to expose photographic plates.
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