stroboscopic
Psychology
(adjective)
Studying or observing periodic movement by rendering a moving body visible only at regular intervals.
Physics
(adjective)
Relating to an instrument used to make a cyclically moving object appear to be slow-moving, or stationary.
Examples of stroboscopic in the following topics:
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Motion Diagrams
- One major use of motion diagrams is the presentation of film through a series of frames taken by a camera; this is sometimes called stroboscopic technique (as seen in ).
- A bouncing ball captured with a stroboscopic flash at 25 images per second.
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Motion
- Stroboscopic motion is a visual phenomenon caused by aliasing that occurs when the view of a moving object is represented by a series of short samples as distinct from a continuous view, and the moving object is in rotational or other cyclic motion at a rate close to the sampling rate.
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Perceiving Motion
- The feature-tracking aspect of second-order perception does not perceive the aftereffects of a motion; it perceives movement as stroboscopic, or as a series of still images.