Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge is an English Photographer born on the 9th of April 1830. He is mostly known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip.


In 1872, former Governor of California Leland Stanford, a businessman and race-horse owner, had taken a position on a popularly-debated question of the day: whether all four of a horse's hooves are off the ground at the same time during the trot. Up until this time, most paintings of horses at full gallop showed the front legs extended forward and the hind legs extended to the rear. Stanford sided with this assertion, called "unsupported transit", and took it upon himself to prove it scientifically. Stanford sought out Muybridge and hired him to settle the question.

In later studies Muybridge used a series of large cameras that used glass plates placed in a line, each one being triggered by a thread as the horse passed. Later a clockwork device was used. The images were copied in the form of silhouettes onto a disc and viewed in a machine called a Zoopraxiscope. This in fact became an intermediate stage towards motion pictures or cinematography.

We recreated his experiment by using multiple webcams and everyone would take a picture at a set time of the moving object(ruth and iman).

Frames per second is that amount of pictures in one second, the more fps the smoother the footage is and the easier it is to edit it.