On Thursday 22 March 2001 19:24, Dresner, Norman A. wrote:
> What I remember from many decades ago when 8mm home movies were fashionable
> is that a frame-rate of ~12 fps appeared as continuous motion to the human
> eye & brain. On many of our systems we use either 8 Hz or 12.5 Hz update
> rate and there's no apparent flicker at all. Trying to update a display at
> 30 Hz is useless because no one could perceive changes at that rate.
This depends very much on what kind of animation you're doing. For example,
if you're doing a 2D game with full screen scrolling and fast moving objects,
you'll get ghosting phenomena if you go anywhere below the CRT refresh rate.
(Which is usually at 70-200 Hz these days...)
//David
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