chu Posted September 3, 2012 Posted September 3, 2012 It really is amazing. Never thought that a cymbal could be that flexible.
Lloyd Posted September 3, 2012 Posted September 3, 2012 (edited) Initially I was a little bit cynical as I found the physics hard to "believe", as more more information is needed and cymbals are pretty solid bits of metal. However the human eye can pick up changes only slower than about 25 frames a second. I may be slightly wrong on the numbers, and it would differ between different people and goes into all sorts of things off topic like computer screens and TVs. Lets say a 26th of a second, and I am being generous - it could be much less - so the human eye cannot see the wobble. The cymbal strike went for about 60 seconds = 1/26th of a second. How does that relate to the time it took for the drummer's arm to appear, strike the cymbal and then fall from view? On the clip that is about 10 seconds, give or take. So if 60 seconds was 1/26th of a second, a sixth of that one 26th of a second is 156th of a second for the drummers arm to appear and then disappear. I know drummers can be fast, but THAT fast? Quite possibly, I dunno. [an analogy is when advertisers would sneak a frame here and there into old movies saying things like "smoke Camel" or "eat popcorn" - human eye couldn't see it, but it proved to be unusually effective. Another analogy is magicians and I don't think I am alone in being buggered if I pretend to know how they move their hands so quickly] I do remain a little cynical. Edited September 3, 2012 by Lloyd
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