Making light stop using science and technology



    by NoHouse4918

    42 Comments

    1. GreatScrambino on

      isn’t this only visible on camera though? i believe it is a technique called laser banding that has been around for quite some time.

    2. This is basically the same thing when you see videos of helicopters that fly with the rotor blades seemingly not spinning.

      pretty cool effect :p

    3. live_love_laugh on

      I once saw an effect like this in real life during a game of laser tag. I could literally see my laser shots travel through the air. At the time I had no clue how it was possible, but now I wonder if maybe they were using strobe lights in the room that were blinking fast enough so that normally it wouldn’t be noticeable.

      But here people are saying it only works for digital cameras. So should it actually be impossible to recreate this effect for the human eye? Then what the hell did I see?

    4. Prestigious-Print461 on

      This is clever use of understanding that cameras scan horizontally and that you can change the perception of the camera by briefly interrupting the beam. This would make it feel on camera that light is travelling in a slow pulsed packet.

    5. Reminds me of the device they used in WW1 to time the machine guns shooting between the propellers.

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