Camera v eyball

Here's a small test for the human eyes capability.

If you are not old enough to drive or don't own a car, ask your parents or friend to let you try this.

Find a not so smooth road.

Look forwards when moving then use the screen mounted rear view mirror to look behind you.

The mirror vibrates the image slightly but when you look forwards there's no vibrated image, this is how a WW2 camera behaves when filming guncam it cannot replicate the human eyeballs capability to stabilize the image.

You can keep one eye on the mirror and one eye forwards for the effect.

Now add tracer rounds to this and you will realize the eye ball sees smooth lines and the mirror camera would show wiggles due to vibration.



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That's a perfect example, well said man! I suppose it won't change some people's mind, but what we have with the sim now is a phisically accurate representation of what it looks like to the human eye, if you want a guncamera effect I have nothing against it, help yourself to learn the modding possibilities and good luck!

Has this actually took 15 pages to prove this point?

Great the resistance to learn is, in some people

That depends on the severity and frequency of the vibration. The human eye processes visual stimulation at a far higher rate than an 1940's camera but it is not immune to disruption through vibration either, only less prone to the level of vibration experienced during a car ride over a rough road.

There certainly should be some kind of blur effect added at least.

Yes, yes it has. :grin:

Frightening, isn't it...

My God ! This is the first best exemple of how a tracer should look like !

Its shorter, a bit yellow, pointy at both ends and slightly bent....Just add a faint smoke trail and a rotating movement , so it looks like its wiggling and this will be it ! All those " I dont care what the experts say" and those "well, I am an expert cause I saw tracers in RL" will be absolutely mesmerized by this simple and efficient tracer mod...
Thanks !

Salute !

and they'd go splat really well

Just found a picture roughly to illustrate that the vibration varies at different parts of the fighter:

http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/39...rating-SPL.jpg

The wing is in a sense like the long ruler, and the table the fuselage, since the mass of the fuselage is much, much larger than that of the wing. (There is a bit of physics omitted here.) Please pay attention to the magnitude of vibrations at different parts of the ruler. In fact the woman's right hand and the table also vibrate - negligibly to the human eye.

And the human body is soft to a certain extent; in particular, the soft tissues between consecutive bones of the spine are just for absorbing vibrations coming from the bottom or legs to the head or brain. That's why the head shakes even less than the seat if the seat (fastened into the fuselage) ever shakes slightly.

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