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- From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Subject: Re: A1200/4000 ramblings...
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:23:24 GMT
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- > Ever sat in the front row of a cinema? The flicker is _really_ bad.
- > I hear it's 24 fps, or something silly like that...
-
- This is not the same thing at all.
-
- First of all, a movie projector illuminates all points on the screen
- simultaneously - there is no vertical and horizontal scanning such as
- there is with CRT's. They don't have to have a fast scan rate to avoid
- flicker because each frame, taken by itself, is inherently flicker-free.
- (If you stop the film on a given frame with the bulb lit, you'll just
- see a slide type of picture). A movie need only show you frames at a
- fast enough rate so that your eye perceives it as smooth movement,
- because there is no electron gun tracing scan lines on the screen. This
- smooth movement rate tends to happen at about 15 to 20 FPS for most
- people. A 24 FPS movie is fast enough to be perceived as smooth by
- almost everyone. I see 15 FPS as smooth, but some folks don't.
-
- As an example of the difference between flicker caused by electron beam
- scanning and insufficient frame rate, consider this. I can make an
- animation on my amiga in 640x400 mode which runs at 20 FPS. This is
- fast enough to be perceived as perfectly smooth motion, but yet, the
- screen is flickering because the electron beam scan rate is not fast
- enough.
-
- I see _huge_ amounts of flicker when watching PAL TV, (I can even see
- annoying flicker on NTSC TV, with its higher scan rate), but you get
- used to it after a while and the effect kind of diminishes. I imagine
- if you grew up watching it, you'd never see it and wonder what the heck
- all the north Americans and Japanese were talking about when they said
- your TV flickered.
-
- - steve
-