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- From: poynton@vector.Sun.COM (Charles A. Poynton)
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- Subject: Re: 35 ns, 63 us later
- Summary: 35 ns and 63 us effects are negligible, but consider exposure time.
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 17:58:53 GMT
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- chrisg@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Chris Green) writes:
-
- > ... render your animation with the knowledge that
- > each pixel is (for instance) 35ns later than the preceeding pixel,
- > and that each scan-line is ~63uS later than the preceeding one.
-
- forgive my being brusque: the effects of ignoring the 35 ns temporal
- offset between adjacent pixels are absolutely negligible.
-
- even the 63 us temporal offset between adjacent lines is negligible for
- all practical purposes: an ever-so-slight temporal slant is introduced,
- but no viewer can tell. in fact tube cameras (e.g. vidicons) have the
- slant, but modern (frame-transfer) CCD cameras integrate every pixel
- during the same exposure interval, and so have no V/T slant.
-
- the effect that is NOT negligible is the exposure time with respect to the
- frame time. this has to do with motion blur, but there's more to it than
- that. I'm preparing a note about this, but i'll give you the teaser:
-
- an infinitely short exposure time is optimum to capture motion IF the
- viewer's eye, at the ultimate display device, is tracking the motion.
-
- but if the viewer's eye is NOT tracking motion, say she's locked on the
- stationary background, then you should expose for a frame time and
- introduce blur, else the temporal content of the moving thing is liable to
- generate spatial aliasing.
-
- for example, if the shot is across a street, and the viewer's eye is
- dwelling on a restaurant sign, and a truck with ten-pixel-pitch black and
- white stripes speeds by in front at a velocity of ten pixels per frame,
- the black and white stripes will alias to become stationary if you've used
- an instantaneous shutter. the viewer will judge the apparently-stationary
- stripes that appeared for an instant in front of the restaurant to be an
- artifact. if you integrate for a frame time, you will get the blur that
- the visual system expects.
-
- however if the viewer was eye-tracking the truck, then she will judge it
- to be an artifact that the truck's stripes turned gray when it started to
- move.
-
- there is no correct solution to this problem. my belief is that the best
- pragmatic solution is to integrate for a third of the frame time.
-
- but i can't prove it.
-
- c.
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