Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Diagrams

Cousin, Jehan. Livre de pourtraiture. (Paris: Jean Leclerc, 1608).
Spectra of Beta Aurgae in photography of the skies The skies and the earth New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1902.
Images from Choregraphie, a book first published in 1700 which details a dance notation system invented by Raoul-Auger Feuillet which revolutionised the dance world.
Raoul-Auger Feuillet, Dance Notation
via http://pinterest.com/pin/64598575875835935/
Page from Eadweard Muybridge's The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, showing the placement of a horse's hooves while walking, trotting, ambling, racking, cantering, and galloping.
Eadward Muybridge Study
Plates 294 to 299 of Eadweard Muybridge’s groundbreaking collection from 1887 titled Animal Locomotion: an Electro-Photographic Investigation of Connective Phases of Animal Movements, a massive portfolio with 781 plates comprising of 20,000 photographs. In the preceding four years Muybridge made more than 100,000 images, working obsessively in Philadelphia under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania.
Animal Locamotion Eadweard Muybridge
Patterns for cleaning: inefficient on the left, efficient on the right.
Patterns for inefficient and efficient cleaning
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