From: Sam Wells (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2004 - 09:24:22 PST
Yeah, Thanks Ed !
I haven't had time to digest it all, but it's fascinating in
implications re filmmaking I think. No matter how much does or will not
turn out to 'hold up in court' scientifically so to speak.
I do wonder why the issue of retinal skipping seems to be ignored below
--- -Sam Wells > Is there, then, some flickering or lack of synchronization in my own > perceptual mechanisms—analogous, again, to the action of a movie > camera? > > Having excluded > any other cause of discontinuity (intermittent lighting, eye movements, > etc.), they conclude that the visual system processes information "in > sequential episodes," at the rate of three to twenty such episodes per > second. Normally, these sequential images are experienced as an > unbroken > perceptual flow. Indeed, Purves et al. suggest, we may find movies > convincing precisely because we ourselves break up time and reality > much as > a movie camera does, into discrete frames, which we then reassemble > into an > apparently continuous flow. __________________________________________________________________ For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.