25 Nov
2007
25 Nov
'07
6:11 p.m.
On 25 Nov 2007 at 9:50, dwight elvey wrote:
I was thinking about Tony's idea of the multiple
and it occurred
to me that there was an issue. We've been thinking of the
flashes as instantaneous strobes while they have duration.
Dwight, I think it's worse than that. There's also the idea of
"persistance of vision" that gets in the way and also makes the
strobe disc work--our eyes do not have instantaneous response and the
only reason a strobe disc really works is because a fixed pattern is
drilled into our optic nerves many times per second. Were this not
the case, one could have a 45 RPM strobe disc, not with 400 bars, but
with, say 4 or 50--but our eyes would likely not register these as a
single continuous event.
Of course I haven't tried this yet and I really should.
Cheers,
Chuck