Kineograph: Flipbook for Study

Kineograph — A Visual Instrument for the Logic of Change Learning apps teach you facts. Video platforms play you motion. Kineograph gives you the controls. Every piece of content in Kineograph reduces to a scrubber — an ordered sequence of frames you drag through with your thumb. No autoplay. No scrub bar hidden behind a gesture. Time is the parameter, and you hold it. Drag slowly to watch a muscle engage across the span of a step. Drag quickly to feel the rhythm of a limb. Stop, reverse, repeat the half-second that matters. A well-made sequence plus a well-made slider lets the most powerful GPU in the world — your own brain — run at exactly the right speed. The name is a tribute to John Barnes Linnett's 1868 invention — the original flipbook. The premise is the same. The catalogue is new. WHAT YOU CAN STUDY AT LAUNCH The library is anatomy-rooted and rigorous. Current content draws from the canonical references: • Human morphometry after Paul Richer — the muscular and skeletal plates generations of figure artists have studied. • Comparative animal anatomy after Ellenberger and Dittrich — equine, bovine, canine, and more, drawn from the nineteenth-century masters of veterinary illustration. Every article is presented with citations, author attribution, and the original plate or photograph at its source. What you see is what the references actually show — not redrawn, not simplified. A CATALOGUE THAT GROWS Anatomy is the beachhead. The roadmap extends outward — animation and kinematics, classical painting and portraiture, engineering illustration, master crafts, calligraphy, the brush-stroke logic of Hán tự and Kanji. The instrument is the same; the subjects expand. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Scrub through any sequence. Drag to control time, release to rest. • Read articles with embedded scrubbers, citations, and author attribution. • Follow official albums — curated reading paths that thread scrubbers and articles together around a theme. • Browse by subject — human, equine, bovine, canine — or by medium (drawing, photography), or by source book (Richer, Ellenberger, Muybridge). • Favorite scrubbers to return to, and vote on scrubbers and articles you find valuable. The Trends screen surfaces what the community is studying now. YOUR LIBRARY TRAVELS Sign in with Apple, Google, Discord, GitHub, or as a guest. Link several providers to one account and merge them later — your library follows you across iPhone and iPad. TIERS • Free — browse, read, use the first two scrubbers of most articles. Small ad banner. • Plus — no ads, full catalogue, custom slider styles. • Pro — everything in Plus, plus hands-free playback and higher-tier articles. • Max — everything. Or unlock a single article by watching a short rewarded ad. Subscriptions are handled by Apple. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ WHO MAKES IT An indie team of two — an anatomy illustrator and a software engineer — at Mushogenshin Media LLC. We started with the bones and the muscles. We're building the instrument that fits everything else.