Wikipedia:POTD column/December 21, 2006



An animated image of Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering high speed photography, demonstrating that a horse's feet all leave the ground during a gallop. Muybridge used a battery of cameras lined along a track. The first camera had to be triggered manually, but the rest were automatically triggered by an electronic apparatus he designed.

Animation credit: Waugsberg, from photos by Eadweard Muybridge Archive - More featured pictures...