What Makes Wheels Look Like They're Spinning Backward?
Car chases have long been a staple of blockbuster cinema, so it’s more than likely you’ve seen the wagon-wheel effect in action. According to Gizmodo’s Robbie Gonzalez, the reason that wheels look like they’re moving backward once a car gets up to speed has a lot to do with the way cameras work. Understanding this concept means recognizing that moving images or motion pictures are technically illusions. They’re constructed from a series of still images that flash in front of us in such a way that our eyes can’t perceive the space between each picture and instead interpret them as ...
Source: thenewswheel.com