Study of animals’ starts out as a project to settle the argument of ‘Do the horse’s legs come off the ground at the same time?’ This then turns into a lifelong quest to study, record and display the movement of many animals and humans.
The University of Pennsylvania must have understood the significance of Muybridge’s work. They gave him a budget of $40,000. They understood that at the moment these images were an extremely useful tool for scientific aid. The technology is still not fully appreciated and its future uses not fully understood. This is incredible foresight because later these sequence images became invaluable to vets, artists and scientists. For later his work contributed to development in the science of biomechanics and the…show more content… These images were later illustrated in the Funk & Wagnall’s standard dictionary in which Muybridge also revised and altered the letterpress.
The eye can now see the small actual movements without question instead of the perceived. Scientists could now view forms, movement, patterns and characteristics of motion. Being able to control the swift passage of time in an instant frozen onto a plate was extremely revolutionary and played a big part in later developments. Muybridge's work was showing the clear possibility that actual moving pictures were a reality and he was not far off perfection.
Muybridge could never have known just how far his techniques would be taken and their uses.
The Military discovered many uses for arranging cameras in a line to sequence images. They studied missiles and bullets plunging and firing at speed. They developed technology called a sequence programmer synchronised to fire the cameras off to capture these extreme speeds. These images were for weapon development and
