Static vs moving images

Posted May 29, 2010 17:21 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
In reply to: Static v.s. moving images by paulj
Parent article: Swift and predictable reactions to WebM

You'd likely perceive one as "sharper" than the other, even without consciously noting the extra details. Our brains are quite good at such fast, parallel processing.

Actually, fast is one thing the brain is not. That's the reason that 24 frames per second is ususally indistinguishable from continuous motion.

Parallel, yes.

In this case, the most important feature of the brain is it's ability to track a moving object. It sees the object, not a series of scenes with the object in different places. So watching a ball move across the screen for 2 seconds is as good as staring at a single frame for 2 seconds for noticing how sharp the ball is.