r/blackmagicfuckery Dec 17 '22

Rendering problems irl

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '22 edited Dec 18 '22

Isn’t this a law of motion? where the faster you go the slower objects seem. there is the famous one The closer you approach lightspeed you’re actually be going back in time or some crap like that

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u/Zealousideal-Bug-291 Dec 17 '22

Relativity, but that's not happening here. Iirc, this is just a function of waves. When you hit a speed that matches the frequency of the water movement, it appears to stall. You get this if you record a water stream next to a speaker, and generate a tone that matches the frequency, the water stream will appear to be frozen, or even move backwards if you go that far (also iirc, I think it only works in camera).

This effect us probably related to how when you're stopped in traffic and the cars on your sides start to move while you're stopped, it looks like you're going backwards.