Friday 2010-07-23 Dev. update and Discussions

[hellbomber]

on the note of tracers, if you've ever fired a heavy machine gun loaded with tracers (i have), they do indeed look like streaks to the human eye

the old ww2 clips dont do them justice they look different on camera than they do to the human eye, due to the way film captures light vs the way the human eye captures it

even when you just try to capture a picture of it the tracers dont appear as long in the picture as they do when you see them in person

you see long streaks this is because the bullets are moving so fast the bright lights will appear long and 'burn' the image into your cornea, although during bright light in the day the effect is alot more subdued, if there is heavy cloud cover out covering the sun or if its dusk / dawn the tracers will look alot longer and brighter, tracers never look like an individual point of light to the eye, sometimes on camera they will as there is time in between frames and the image is captured in frames wheras the eye captures it in continuous motion, they look like streaks, even when they bounce of rocks and stuff they look like cool "L" or "v" or "w" (if they skip) shapes, it would be cool if at night the images from the tracers would temporarily leave streaks on your screen as they will irl at night the light leaves streaks in your eyes like a camera flash will

[ECV56_Lancelot]

Originally Posted by hellbomber

on the note of tracers, if you've ever fired a heavy machine gun loaded with tracers (i have), they do indeed look like streaks to the human eye

I should had wrote small streaks then, instead of points. From behind that streaks from a tracer look shorter that from the side, motter of angle point of view. Bottom of the line, you are right.

[JVM]

Originally Posted by hellbomber

on the note of tracers, if you've ever fired a heavy machine gun loaded with tracers (i have), they do indeed look like streaks to the human eye

the old ww2 clips dont do them justice they look different on camera than they do to the human eye, due to the way film captures light vs the way the human eye captures it

even when you just try to capture a picture of it the tracers dont appear as long in the picture as they do when you see them in person

you see long streaks this is because the bullets are moving so fast the bright lights will appear long and 'burn' the image into your cornea, although during bright light in the day the effect is alot more subdued, if there is heavy cloud cover out covering the sun or if its dusk / dawn the tracers will look alot longer and brighter, tracers never look like an individual point of light to the eye, sometimes on camera they will as there is time in between frames and the image is captured in frames wheras the eye captures it in continuous motion, they look like streaks, even when they bounce of rocks and stuff they look like cool "L" or "v" or "w" (if they skip) shapes, it would be cool if at night the images from the tracers would temporarily leave streaks on your screen as they will irl at night the light leaves streaks in your eyes like a camera flash will

I like your explanation...I had forgotten of the retinal persistence consequences!

JV