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Old 07-23-2010, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by JVM View Post
Concerning shot 5, I see the tracers are there, but why do we have to see them as dashes like we are watching a movie?
The dashes appear because during the time the shutter of the camera is open the moving bright point that is the tracer goes a certain distance which depends only on the shutter open time and the bullet speed (this is a way to calculate the speed!); however in a simulation we are using directly our eyes which only see the bright points going away, like anybody having fired tracer rounds with a gun or a machine gun could assess!
That depends on the percentage of tracers in the amo, cadence and bullet speed.
I have seen machine gun and flab salvos from a >45° angle that appeared rather like a freakin' red laser beam - with a few interrupts.
You are right if you say the shallower the angle of the observer, the less blurry but dot like they appear.

Fire: I agree here, I just checked the pics of the Concorde crash in Paris.


BTT:

Great pics, thanks.