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Re: [time-nuts] GPS for Nixie Clock

HM
Hal Murray
Fri, Jul 15, 2016 6:47 PM
If the objective is a time *display* that is read with a human eye,

anything  under 1 ms is not of much use. Your eye can’t detect it.

What can your eye detect?

Is there good data?  Does it vary with age or things like that?

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kb8tq@n1k.org said: > If the objective is a time *display* that is read with a human eye, > anything under 1 ms is not of much use. Your eye can’t detect it. What can your eye detect? Is there good data? Does it vary with age or things like that? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.
BC
Bob Camp
Fri, Jul 15, 2016 8:15 PM

Hi

As a single pulse flash of light you can “detect” very narrow pulses. When you start trying to
decide “which one came first?” and resolve visual information, things slow down quite a
bit. You can play a game to see how well people do. With most groups and most
“targets”, anything under about 100 ms starts to get pretty random.

If you “chop” a video signal, people can detect jitter out to 50 ms or so with normal scenes. With something
that is moving very fast, most people can tell the difference between 20 sps and something
faster based on “blur”.

So, different answers depending on just what the question really was.

Bob

On Jul 15, 2016, at 2:47 PM, Hal Murray hmurray@megapathdsl.net wrote:

kb8tq@n1k.org said:

If the objective is a time display that is read with a human eye,
anything  under 1 ms is not of much use. Your eye can’t detect it.

What can your eye detect?

Is there good data?  Does it vary with age or things like that?

--
These are my opinions.  I hate spam.


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Hi As a single pulse flash of light you can “detect” very narrow pulses. When you start trying to decide “which one came first?” and *resolve* visual information, things slow down quite a bit. You can play a game to see how well people do. With most groups and most “targets”, anything under about 100 ms starts to get pretty random. If you “chop” a video signal, people can detect jitter out to 50 ms or so with normal scenes. With something that is moving very fast, most people can tell the difference between 20 sps and something faster based on “blur”. So, different answers depending on just what the question really was. Bob > On Jul 15, 2016, at 2:47 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> wrote: > > > kb8tq@n1k.org said: >> If the objective is a time *display* that is read with a human eye, >> anything under 1 ms is not of much use. Your eye can’t detect it. > > What can your eye detect? > > Is there good data? Does it vary with age or things like that? > > > > > -- > These are my opinions. I hate spam. > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there.