New Tracers

[choctaw111]

Originally Posted by zipper

I don't know about either representation, really. It seems to me that the whole "streaking" tracer thing is a function of film characteristics, that not only streaks the hotspot on the film but the burn-in enlarges it a small amount due to film local over-exposure. Whenever I've fired tracers all I ever see is a dot flying along. I think it would be a whole lot more "realistic" to just show those small dots.

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I have fired quite a few tracers also and after hearing what different people have to say about describing their appearance, I have to believe that people actually see the same thing differently. My eyes have a lower "fps" than others.
Joe DiMaggio could actually see where his bat made contact with a spinning baseball that he hit. He would most certainly have seen tracers as dots.
Also consider that as the firer, we would see tracers from directly behind so they would appear as glowing dots but the further you move you viewpoint to the side they would start appear more as streaks.
I do not want to start a flame war here, I am just curious in the differences between the new tracers and the old.

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