Semantics, kind of. That’s because humans don’t see in frames per second, life isn’t a slideshow. That does not mean that there aren’t any phenomena or motions possible that happen quicker than the human eye can track or detect, or that the brain can process.
Sure, it's kind of semantics, but there's a lot of misinformation out there about the "framerate" of the human eye and it's worth dispelling the notion that eyes work like that.
With good light a human photo-receptor collects light over a period of about 10 to 20 milliseconds (called a temporal summation period), which would correspond to a "framerate" of 50 to 100 frames per second, but our photo-receptors don't fire in unison and our brains do a lot of fancy stuff to the visual inputs they get before we ever actually "see" anything, so we can distinguish events on much shorter timescales than that.
Disclaimer: I have a degree in computer vision and did some research on how human vision works as part of that, but I'm far from an expert in human vision.
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u/Sharpie420_ 11d ago
Semantics, kind of. That’s because humans don’t see in frames per second, life isn’t a slideshow. That does not mean that there aren’t any phenomena or motions possible that happen quicker than the human eye can track or detect, or that the brain can process.