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What Is The Resolution Of The Eye?

Vsauce | April 3, 2025

Follow me: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce SOURCES BELOW: Hanu Dixit music: https://www.youtube.com/user/HanuDixit0003 Vsauce video about the FRAME RATE of the eye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buSaywCF6E8 music from http://www.youtube.com/jakechudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com Feature Film numbers [PDF]: http://www.uis.unesco.org/culture/Documents/average-film-production-2009.xls My instagram: http://instagram.com/electricpants Carlton Bale resolution graphs: http://carltonbale.com/1080p-does-matter/ resolution links: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/res-demyst.shtml http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/cameras-vs-human-eye.htm http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2011/11/04/whats-the-best-seat-in-a-movie-theater/#.UxS3ifR_sYz http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wrmbMQpXdls/UK0bV-z0ARI/AAAAAAAAED8/MdyUCdQBNhk/s1600/Bayer+Notebook.jpg http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/333/do-more-megapixels-mean-better-photo-quality/ http://www.techradar.com/news/photography-video-capture/cameras/camera-testing-resolution-charts-explained-1027585 http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/333/do-more-megapixels-mean-better-photo-quality/ Dali Painting: http://www.newpaltz.edu/news/images/hi_res/1995.011.007%20Dali%20Hi.jpg xkcd […]

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The Moon Terminator Illusion

Vsauce | March 15, 2025

http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce http://instagram.com/electricpants Sources and sites to learn more below!!! dolly zoom effect: http://filmmakeriq.com/lessons/introduction-to-the-dolly-zoom/ visual angle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_diameter https://xkcd.com/1276/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_angle http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/A/Angular+Diameter great visual angle / angular diameter chart: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Comparison_angular_diameter_solar_system.svg moon terminator illusion resources: rogers and olga naumenko (2014): http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=v1410275 moon tile illusion [PDF]: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~amyers/MoonPaper20June.pdf http://www.upenn.edu/emeritus/essays/MyersMoon.html http://www.astropix.com/HTML/L_STORY/MOONILL.HTM http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthread.php?39035-Why-does-the-moon-s-terminator-not-appear-orthogonal-to-the-direction-of-the-sun the (more famous) moon illusion: […]

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What Color Is A Mirror?

Vsauce | January 5, 2025

Follow Michael Stevens: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce LEARN MORE and, in order of appearence: Watch Molly dance! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jljYAXLaus Javier: http://www.youtube.com/user/werevertumorro Loka: http://www.youtube.com/user/LeMondedeLoka Great web exhibit on the causes of color: http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/ “color” vs “colour”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-our.2C_-or Study on mirror color: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA523782 Bad Astronomy on Mirror-color: http://www.badastronomy.com/mad/1996/mirror.html Great series of mirror tunnels: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikedefiant/452440663/in/photostream/ Origins of […]

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