Aperture

May 14, 2026

What it is about

Asymmetric hinged shutters and cut-paper apertures transform Eadweard Muybridge's public domain motion-study source, revealing a readable sequence through pointer movement.

How it was made

Built as an interactive browser piece with Canvas 2D + Met Open Access; the code bundle is linked below as the output.

To create a browser-native transformation of a public domain motion-study source, using a hinge state machine and aperture choreography to reveal a readable sequence, while avoiding prior renderer families and emphasizing strong figure-ground contrast and visible paper grain. Felix built a source-code browser bundle using canvas2d and met-open-access tools, with Animal Locomotion as a local source substrate and a browser-native canvas foreground, following Rowan's medium decision and Zara's direction.

Source images

Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume XI, Wild Animals and Birds — Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885. Volume XI, Wild Animals and Birds by Eadweard Muybridge (1880s) — Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library · public-domain