Bizarre Effect
This is what happens when you record a plane's propellers with a cell phone.
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3. SmajlicekCZ commented 14 years ago
New bombarding methods?
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4. chestrefeld commented 14 years ago
That is so weird?!?!?!
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6. PortugaL26 commented 14 years ago
Boomerangs
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11. Chrisofskjern commented 14 years ago
aha.... And what cell phone might that be?
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12. plurft commented 14 years ago
THEY'RE COMING!! WAVE AFTER WAVE!!!
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13. Dubsteppah commented 14 years ago
Nooooooo wayy that is blagging!
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14. cheesewire commented 14 years ago
@ #9
ur wrong, its the 5th dimension
ur wrong, its the 5th dimension
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17. pokesmot commented 14 years ago
Phone can only capture so many frames per second, and the propellers are spinning at a certain RPM, just a weird optical illusion as a result of that.
You ever wonder why driving on the highway at night it looks like the wheels on the vehicle beside you are spinning backwards? The street lamps in most of North America run at 60Hz meaning those lights are actually blinking on and off 60 times per second creating a strobe effect; blinking so fast your eyes and brain can't even pick up on it. Once your wheels spin above a certain speed, it will appear like they are going backwards!
You ever wonder why driving on the highway at night it looks like the wheels on the vehicle beside you are spinning backwards? The street lamps in most of North America run at 60Hz meaning those lights are actually blinking on and off 60 times per second creating a strobe effect; blinking so fast your eyes and brain can't even pick up on it. Once your wheels spin above a certain speed, it will appear like they are going backwards!
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21. irishgek commented 14 years ago
#17 totally right about the lights, in fact if you try to record a tv or a street lamp you will notice black lines on the screen same as the propeller (by tv i do mean an old crt tv as modern lcd and plasma some times have 100-200hz and you wont see it so much)
Kinda reminds me of the strobe lights on the old record players.
Kinda reminds me of the strobe lights on the old record players.
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24. ledledled commented 14 years ago
aka rolling shutter effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter
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25. Gorf commented 14 years ago
The rolling shutter effect is the result of the cheaper CMOS sensors used in mobile phones and consumer level HD cameras. It's also the cause of jello/jelly lens, where the subject is relatively static but the camera itself is moving a lot. Where the camera pans up, the footage appears squashed, where it pans down, it appears stretched, and where it pans right or left, it tilts in the direction of the pan. All video cameras suffer from the effect described by #17. This effect is particular to those cameras where the top of the video frame was not captured at the exact same instant as the bottom, which is what happens with older (and in my opinion, better) CCD sensor cameras.
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26. itsSimple7 commented 14 years ago
My guess is that it is a Bombardier (Dash-8) Q-Series airplane, in which the propeller is by Dowty.
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27. InfiniteBoredom commented 14 years ago
I am not buying this. Someone test this with a fan or something.
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28. montypython commented 14 years ago
. . . I knew I should've taken the GREEN pill !?!*
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29. Gorf commented 10 years ago
#27 Here you go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaB9EHeDLSk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaB9EHeDLSk
+9 1. LightAng3l commented 14 years ago