stroboscopic

Psychology

(adjective)

Studying or observing periodic movement by rendering a moving body visible only at regular intervals.

Related Terms

  • luminance
  • motion perception
Physics

(adjective)

Relating to an instrument used to make a cyclically moving object appear to be slow-moving, or stationary.

Related Terms

  • motion
  • diagram

Examples of stroboscopic in the following topics:

  • Motion Diagrams

    • One major use of motion diagrams is the presentation of film through a series of frames taken by a camera; this is sometimes called stroboscopic technique (as seen in ).
    • A bouncing ball captured with a stroboscopic flash at 25 images per second.
  • Motion

    • Stroboscopic motion is a visual phenomenon caused by aliasing that occurs when the view of a moving object is represented by a series of short samples as distinct from a continuous view, and the moving object is in rotational or other cyclic motion at a rate close to the sampling rate.
  • Perceiving Motion

    • The feature-tracking aspect of second-order perception does not perceive the aftereffects of a motion; it perceives movement as stroboscopic, or as a series of still images.
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