File:Centipede backward propagation.gif
Summary
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English: Most centipedes and all millipedes, and indeed 4-legged creatures, walk with the rear legs leading the legs in front. In centipedes, this results in waves propagating from back to front. This simulation was created in w:OpenSCAD using a leg motion in which each foot spends half the time on the ground, and the motion of legs in adjacent segments are offset in phase by 45°. Changing the sign of the phase offset results in forward locomotion with the waves propagating from front to back, which is a characteristic of some centipedes such as scolopendra hero.} See also File:Centipede forward propagation.gif. |
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| Source | Own work, scaled from the original in my blog article at https://www.nablu.com/2022/12/metachronal-waves-of-legs.html |
| Author | Anachronist |
OpenSCAD source code
See source code in File:Centipede forward propagation.gif.
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