Temporal resolution was then determined by increasing
the flicker rate to a threshold at which the birds could no longer tell the lamps apart.
Curious how higher - CO2 conditions would affect this ability, researchers placed the animals in water tanks with different levels of carbon dioxide and shone lights at various
flickering rates.
As a conspiracy theorist...
That flicker rate 50 - 60hz that your synapses have to adjust to is what makes you lose track of time, your long term goals and plans, what you're doing, the need for motivational posters, etc — would all be gone if this screen took off, as well as most of the e-reader market.
The flicker rate alone is enough to discourage concentration (and also presents substantial access issues for students with neurological sensibilities.)
Part of this is due to the increased
flicker rate for televisions.
The flicker rate refers to the number of images projected on the screen per second.
Not exact matches
TV
ratings and attendance must increase from» 83's averages (6.0 and 25,000) to 7.0 and 35,000 or its flame may
flicker.
Last year Philips starting selling TV sets which cure
flicker by displaying each field twice and doubling the display
rate to 100 hertz.
Japanese and American visitors to Europe often complain that television pictures appear to
flicker because the picture changes at a slower
rate in Europe.
The researchers found that once malware is on a computer, it can indirectly control the HDD LED, turning it on and off rapidly (thousands of
flickers per second)-- a
rate that exceeds the human visual perception capabilities.
That sampling
rate was fast enough to discern that there were two
flickers before and after the main occultation, or blockage of light — evidence of two dense, narrow rings with a small but distinct gap between them.
This threshold, known as the CFF (critical
flicker fusion
rate), averaged between 129 and 137 hertz (Hz).
When the researchers looked at activity at the cellular level in the rats» brains, they saw that individual cells stimulated by the optogenetics would increase firing
rates in the PER network and that many cells fired in sync with the optical
flicker frequency.
As expected, the thicker the mucus was, the slower the
rate of light
flickering.
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Most readers by Sony, Pocketbook, Kobo, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble have options to augment the refresh
rate from every page to every six or nine pages, allowing for less
flickering.
Some e-readers have a six page refresh
rate to cut down on screen
flickering between page turns.
As much as we love the way E Ink displays render text, the technology's slow refresh
rates and full - screen black - to - white
flicker generally make them a poor choice for other purposes.
Greg, I think the
flicker is more pronounced in the video, but in terms of screen refresh
rates, it does appear that the Nook is slower than the Kindle in real life to my eyes.
The game is running close to 60 fps on our PC setup however we do notice some frame
rate stuttering here and there along with some shadow
flicker much as we experienced in the console versions.