Introduction
Schwartz’s 1971 film used Muybridge’s motion studies as a reference for a computational running figure. Joints and geometric elements became material for designing movement, connecting photographic analysis with computer animation.
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Olympiad: work and context
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Work, material and process
The museum describes a hierarchy based on sixteen joints and a body assembled from octagons using Knowlton’s EXPLOR. Changes in their positions and sizes between frames produce movement. This is an analysed and constructed representation, not a motion model automatically learned from camera input.
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Historical significance and questions
Editorial interpretation: Olympiad makes the relation between photography, bodily analysis and animation concrete. It can be compared with later pose control while retaining differences in evidence, mechanism and artistic intervention.
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Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Pixillation.
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Lillian Schwartz and Eadweard Muybridge: Pioneers of Motion ↗
Lillian Schwartz and Eadweard Muybridge: Pioneers of Motion
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