Re: A89: Re: Frame Rates
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Re: A89: Re: Frame Rates
haha. now what made you go and try that?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cassady Roop" <croop@oregontrail.net>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: A89: Re: Frame Rates
>
> heh. Stand ten feet from your monitor, and snort your nose. Try to
> make a sound like a pig. Does whacky things to what you see on the
> screen, probably because of some effect of the vibration frequency
> acting on the retina through your face bones interfering with the
> frequency of the screen. Anyway, it makes it look just like a home
> video of a computer screen: you see the frames move up the screen.
>
> Cassady Roop
>
> Sebastian Reichelt wrote:
> >
> > | > What is the eye's persistence of vision, anyway? Around 50 Hz?
Can't
> > | > be much higher than that else I would see my 60 Hz lamp blinking...
> >
> > 24 Hz, I think. However, monitors running at 60 Hz do flicker, I think
> > mainly because they can't hit a multiple of the eye's frequency exactly.
I
> > don't know how long a pixel turned on on an LCD stays visible; you just
have
> > to test out what works and what doesn't.
>
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