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Posted on 12/27/2022 12:20:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Earlier this year, a series of stone engravings of strange animals with melded bodies reignited speculation about the earliest forms of animation. Using 3D models and virtual reality software to bring ancient etchings to life, the team of archeologists argued that the stone artworks might have been dynamic representations of animals in motion if viewed in firelight...
Another example lay for centuries covered in ash and dust in Shahr-e Sukhteh, an archaeological site in southeast Iran known as the 'Burnt City'. Here, researchers found an unassuming goblet bearing burnt red sketches of a jumping goat that springs to life when the vase is spun – much like a modern zoetrope of the 19th century.
In five sequential images, the horned goat jumps up to eat the leaves of a tree that might represent the Assyrian tree of life. But archeologists only recognized the drawings as a series of images years after the vase was unearthed in 1967...
Sprawling, graphic, and often chaotic narrative scenes captured movement with repeated sequences. For instance, the Grand Panneau of the Salle du Fond, an over 10-meter-long (33 feet) hunting scene found inside the Chauvet Cave in France, is filled with horses and bison and features cave lions that reappear to chase their prey along the wall. It has been dated to around 32,000 years old...
In Indonesia, some 12,000 years earlier, people on the island of Sulawesi painted panoramic scenes stretching across limestone walls depicting supernatural beings wrangling buffalo – in what is thought to be the oldest story ever found...
Ancient bone discs and two-sided plaques bearing split-motion images of animals have also been found and were likely used to create entertaining or symbolic visual illusions.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
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That was cute! Thanks, Beowulf!
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This was already shown in the movie “Ice Age”.
I like how the steps shake the ground.
If I want to watch an old horny goat jump something, I’ll look for Epstein’s sex tapes of Bill Clinton.
I would love to see that Persian vase in motion, to show the animated goat.
Thank you! That is fantastic.
My pleasure.
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