Truck wheel reverse illusion: original 6deg pattern
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You're a real nerd and I love it.
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"There´s some very obvious rotation stuff going on!"
Awesome description!
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@wbeaty haha :D Just kiddin man! But on a more Positive note, I love watching your vidios! :D Very Cool!
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Also,
If you use a strobe on this wheel you have so that the rotation is frozen, I think the nuts will appear to tighten up in place =)
Have you ever heard of US persons seeing an annoying flicker on the UK 50Hz TV systems and vice versa? Or perhaps experienced it on variable frequency monitors running at a frequency slightly different than what we are accustomed to?
I think the visual processing timing of our eye-brain is a learned timing. I think it adjusts automatically to our surrounding
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Hi - big fan of you work!
I've been looking around and I see there is some confusion regarding the reverse wheel effect (or wagon wheel effect). What seems to missing in most cases is that our eye-brain visual processing has a sample rate of around 15Hz and functions as a difference processor. Therefore, if the rotation (any rotation with definition) is slightly slower (or a multiple resulting in less than 360°) than that, it will appear to move backwards even in constant illumination
Cheers!
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look at the wheel (CD?) then at the nuts, they appear to be going in opposite directions.
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what was tht about
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mmm... eggiwegs I would like to.... ¡¡SMASH THEM!! xD
Hahaha He said 'Nut' in the first 4 seconds! :DD
littlemanjoe333 7 months ago
@littlemanjoe333 HEX nuts! Don't mess with hexnuts or you'll end up cursed. Saps all your mojo.
wbeaty 7 months ago
Alex from the ClockWork Orange?
TheAtheistKat 2 years ago
Daughter in high school, she was temporarily a huge fan of munching away at eggiwegs, and lomticks of toast and lovely steakiwegs, while givin ya one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles.
wbeaty 2 years ago
Sorry for being "stupid" sometimes. It's hard to describe thoughts in 500 chars on foreign language. =P
Seems, like I saw description of purpose of this "research unit"...or it's just personal intention?
Sedokun 2 years ago
Personal projects, see "Science Hobbyist," amasci com
While driving on the highway, I fortunately observed the "reverse wheel effect" in direct sunlight. The hex-nuts on a large truck wheel contained a pattern which rotates backwards. The cause was obvious: flashing of the flat facets of the nuts.
But why would a truck driver bother to align the wheel nuts so carefully?
Experiment shows that it occurs accidentally when changing a flat tire, whenever all nuts are tightened to similar angle.
wbeaty 2 years ago