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12 Jan 2011, 8:31 am

one-A-N wrote:
I just find ordinary fluorescent lights give too much glare. Maybe subconsciously the rate of flicker has something to do with it. I don't know.
I find the same thing and what you say is quite likely, but the glare could also be an effect of poor colour rendition. Because no fluorescent light can cover the full spectrum some colours tend to be highlighted and others diminished, so the perceived contrast can get "tweaked" as a result. See this Wiki page.
(it gets a bit complex but there are other pages :lol: )


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12 Jan 2011, 8:34 am

auntblabby wrote:
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the cut-off point is (I think) around 25 frames per second before it becomes clear that what's being viewed is really a series of still images - so the same thing should occur for some film viewers too.

24/25 frames per second is still perceptibly coarse motion resolution. 30 frames per second [29.97 in practice] is better, 60 better still. my sony tv has 120 plus anti-judder extrapolated frame synthesis which makes all the difference in the world in watching movies. i HATE 24 frames per second, it is so coarse and reductive.
Yeah, that's more like it. "off the top of my head" thinking, earlier. :roll:
The video processing found on some modern TVs is a really nice development. :)


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12 Jan 2011, 2:16 pm

Ragnar59 wrote:
also if I kind of made this post in a roundabout way to summarize I think a lot of symptoms of autism could be explained by just seeing 'faster'/or just a general taking in of information was faster, after seeing what ordinary scenes look like at 1000 FPS or so and seeing how bizarre it looks/not like life as a John Woo movie

Edit: oh yeah the idea also partially came out about what I'd heard before about fluorescent lights and autistic people (which have a higher refresh rate than regular bulbs I guess?) and the book Blink where the author had some sort of idea that autism is something wrong with the way the body handles adrenaline/everything feels 'slower' like during a very intense situation

Just this little point of your post reminded me of something i read somewhere, (or thought up myself possibly, cannot remember tbh) , is the part about autistic vision being different, i think it's related to the detailed vision we have, as in seeing the details first and building the global image by gluing all the details together, rather than the contrary (the "NT way").
A good training in this kind of vision, as we naturally have, allows us to be able to tell what the big picture is very quickly, almost as the same pace as an NT, by working out the details as fast as possible to be able to put them together in a timely fashion. This has been noted to give false results in tests of "global vision vs detail vision" , even children can learn to fake it, but it requires a super fast processing, and i think we tend to naturally train ourselves to do that, just to appear more normal, as we grow up.
The thing is, when a situation can be described as "intense", there are so many things to process, that it can slow our average reaction time and possibly we don't measure with NTs anymore .This last sentence is based on what you said , but i think most of us can testify that there is another factor in "intense" situations that puts us at an advantage, it's the ablity to not "lose it" , emotionally, and act appropriately. It is possible that it takes us a bit longer to assess a situation, but i think we would still be the first ones to stand up and work to solve it, since NTs can be totally lost and useless once their fear/shock etc kicks in.


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