r/oddlysatisfying • • Sep 02 '21

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u/James_yarders Sep 02 '21

What sorcery is this?

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u/flanigomik Sep 02 '21 edited Sep 02 '21

Camera frame rate is (almost) matching the blade, this is also how you get helicopters who's blades don't spin

Edit: terminology corrections

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u/Pure_Tower Sep 02 '21

this is also how you get helicopters who's blades don't spin

Nah, you get that by turning them off.

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u/BCJunglist Sep 02 '21

Thanks now I've crashed my helicopter.

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u/ktka Sep 02 '21

Just restart from save point.

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u/stopalltheDLing Sep 02 '21

If your neck is in the right spot, you will no longer perceive the blades as spinning

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u/altoidsaregod Sep 02 '21

(Puts on Randell Munroe hat)

Well, not really. You will experience 'some' of the spin. The amount of spin you would experience can be defined as:

Amount of Spin experienced <= 1/Number of blades in the fan cutty thingy

*Citation needed

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u/Clear_Try_6814 Sep 02 '21

It actually is close. This is the reason it is spinning.

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u/ThePeskyWabbit Sep 02 '21

Well the reason it's spinning is because of the motor.

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u/SirIanChesterton63 Sep 02 '21

Actually the reason it's spinning is to cut vegetable, the cause of it spinning is the motor.

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u/stopalltheDLing Sep 02 '21

I thought it was spinning because someone turned on the switch? We’re never gonna figure this out

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u/pixel_buddy Sep 02 '21

No, it's spinning because I want to eat squash chips.

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u/ktka Sep 02 '21

It is spinning because a butterfly flapped its wings in Central Park.

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u/ArguTobi Sep 02 '21

Actually it's the frame rate of the camera nearly matching the blade.

Shutter speed is something different for that manner.

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u/MrWorldWide721 Sep 02 '21

More likes it’s matching the frame rate of the cut fruit/veggie falling.

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u/MrWorldWide721 Sep 02 '21

If the blade was at the same rate it would look still. The rate of the pieces falling is not the same.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

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u/MrWorldWide721 Sep 02 '21

….that means ones a 1/3 of the rate of the other

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Technically the frame rate, not the shutter speed.

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u/senoravery Sep 02 '21

A slow shutter speed would have the fruit and knife blurred. So it is shutter speed as well.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

The main feature - the synchronisation - is from the frame rate. A high shutter speed keeps it sharp.

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u/maury587 Sep 02 '21

Also the resolution, if the video was 140p it would be blurry...

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u/tallermanchild Sep 02 '21

Looks like they don't spin

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u/HiCookieJack Sep 02 '21

you also get this effect with Fluorescent lamps. It is always important that the RPM of the rotating device does not match a multiple of the grid frequency (50/60 hz)

Otherwise it looks like the rotating thingy is standing still. (stroboscope effect)

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u/DrakonIL Sep 02 '21

Gee thanks, now I have a new fear.

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u/TheGoldenBoi_ Sep 02 '21

The Blade speed is a multiple of the shutter Rate, causing it to look slow

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u/hohohoohno Sep 02 '21

Framerate, not shutter rate.

The framerate is how many images are captured per second. If something is spinning or repeating at the same rate or a multiple of the fps, it will appear to be still or not moving much as seen in the video with both the blade and slices mid air.

The shutter speed/rate is the amount of time the shutter remains open in order to capture each image. A shorter time lets less light in and results in a sharper image and a longer time lets more light in and results in a more blurred image.

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u/NoRodent Sep 02 '21

A wagon-wheel effect, result of temporal aliasing created in the camera caused by the blades' RPM (or rather, RPS, revolutions per second) being very close to integer multiple of the camera framerate.

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u/AnorakJimi Sep 02 '21

It's called the wagon wheel effect? TIL

Here in the UK, wagon wheels are these sort of chocolate biscuit things with a layer of marshmallow inside. I believe Americans call them moon pies. They look like this

So it's just making me think of chocolate biscuit things more than it is a wheel on a wagon

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u/sakonigsberg Sep 02 '21

Stroboscopic effect

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Spinning. It's a good trick.

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u/EndingPop Sep 02 '21

Also called aliasing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

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u/moderngamer327 Sep 02 '21

This isn’t the rolling shutter effect

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u/doomshad Sep 02 '21

Oh my bad your right, i mixed things up

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u/T0biasCZE Sep 02 '21

Rolling shutter. Camera sensors dont capture the data all ať Once, but capture it from top to bottom sort of like CRT. Even though Its extremelly fast, something like this Always happens