Persistence Of Vision

Persistence of Vision

Persistence of vision can be justified as an optical illusion for the human brain where it can take lots of still images and put it into a film and it looks as though that thing/person is moving etc. The lowest rate for persistence of vision to work is 12 frames per second, anything under this the brain can make out it is looking at still images. Professional companies will use 25 frames per second for animation and video, this means they spend much more time and effort into their pieces. In the USA the standard is 29.97 frames per second meaning its more than the professional standards of the UK.

The video above is about a man ( Eadweard Muybridge ) who wondered when he raced his horse if all 4 legs came off the ground at one given time , to check to see if this was the case he lined up many cameras and as the horse went passed the cameras they took pictures of it. As you can see below Eadweard Muybridge found out that his horses legs did come off the ground all at the same time.