ERIC Number: EJ1002732
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Publication Date: 2012-Sep
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Why Do Photo Finish Images Look Weird?
Gregorcic, Bor; Planinsic, Gorazd
Physics Education, v47 n5 p530-536 Sep 2012
This paper deals with effects that appear on photographs of rotating objects when taken by a photo finish camera, a rolling shutter camera or a computer scanner. These effects are very similar to Roget's palisade illusion. A simple quantitative analysis of the images is also provided. The effects are explored using a computer scanner in a way that is also suitable for a student project activity. (Contains 10 figures.)
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Photography, Science Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Science Activities, Motion, Physics
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