Earlier this year, I made an older version of this animation (184x135px). The picture is used in Horse gait and High speed photography. It is Commons featured picture.
It was also nominated here ( Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Muybridgehorse). There were opinions who wanted it in a better quality. In the meantime I could get better copies, so I made a new and larger version (300x200px) of the animation.
Muybridge's photos where taken between 1878 and 1887. The animation is made of 15 frames (nr. 2-16). Muybridge wrote that the exposure time he used for horses at full speed was between one six-hundredth and one eight-hundredth of a second each. The interval of time between successive exposures was 31 thousands of a second. As one sequence of 15 pictures takes about 1.5 seconds, the animation shows about 1/3 of normal speed.
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