Re: Cantering MOOSE / anyone do gaits?

Please excuse me if this is the second time you are seeing this article
(newsserver problems - again/still)

In article <PBk...@xemu.demon.co.uk>, Dave Bird---St Hippo of
Augustine <new...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> In article <34C...@freent.toronto.on.ca>, llizard writes:
> >In article <CJ9...@xemu.demon.co.uk>, Dave Bird wrote:
> >>
> >> Enclosed is an amination of a moose cantering; to view, save and
> >> browse as an HTML file.
> >>
> >> Has anyone done an animation of animals showing all the real-life
> >> four legged walking patterns ("gaits"), which can all be observed
> >> in domestic cats if you have cats at home.
> >> (A) SLOW WALK.  The legs  act in diagonally opposite pairs:
> >> 1. LeftRear forward 2 RightFront  3 RightRear 4 RightFront,
> >> in four time units the animal is one pace forward.
> >>
> >>[snip other gaits..........]
> >
> >You should really turn the poor thing around so it doesn't suddenly and
> >inexplicably beam itself back to the starting point.
> 
> Can the Basic below be done in JavaScript i.e. the array stores
> not FRAMES but LINES, and a frame is built dynamically from lines
> (don't know how slow this would be), thus eliminating lots of
> frames which are just the same object 4,8,12 etc spaces rightwards?
> The animation shows a little dog doing the slow quadruped walk.
> 
[snip of basic]
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~JAVASCRIPT~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Does JavaScript have basic-style string variables, concatenate,
> and left$/right$/mid$?  can you do a bitwise and of variables??
[snip]
>     var max=0;  //function to set up a list of strings
>     function tlist(){ max=tlist.arguments.length;
>         for(i=0;i<max;i++) this[i]=tlist.arguments[i];
>     }
>     list1=new tlist(
>       "\\            /\       \r\n", //W[1]
>       " \\__________/  @--o   \r\n",
>       " |               ===   \r\n",
>       " |  _________    .''   \r\n",
>       " | |+\       | |+|     \r\n",
>       " | |\#\      | |+|     \r\n",
>       ".|_|.'-'    .|_|-'     \r\n",
[snip of rest of dogs]

Oh my. Why don't you take a look at my javascript ascii-animation
template?

It is not difficult to decipher and is located at

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/animlesson.htm

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