Comments on: Fun Pigeon Facts: Super Vision http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/22/fun-pigeon-facts-super-vision/ The Neat Side of the Web Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:11:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: sparge http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/22/fun-pigeon-facts-super-vision/#comment-231074 sparge Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:19:43 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/22/fun-pigeon-facts-super-vision/#comment-231074 <i>This is why pigeons seem to leave it until the very last second to fly out of the way of an oncoming car: it appears much less fast to them.</i> I doubt that's the reason. People and animals has an innate and instinctual sense of physics and calculus (that's why you can do things like catch an object thrown at you, even if you don't consciously understand the math of an object in flight). Having more frames per second isn't going to make something appear to be going at a different velocity. If it did, pigeons would be very uncoordinated, because their sense of physics would be off. Probably it has to do with the fact that more frames per second = more information = a better sense of exactly how fast the car is going and how long until the pigeon needs to fly away. This is why pigeons seem to leave it until the very last second to fly out of the way of an oncoming car: it appears much less fast to them.

I doubt that’s the reason. People and animals has an innate and instinctual sense of physics and calculus (that’s why you can do things like catch an object thrown at you, even if you don’t consciously understand the math of an object in flight). Having more frames per second isn’t going to make something appear to be going at a different velocity. If it did, pigeons would be very uncoordinated, because their sense of physics would be off.

Probably it has to do with the fact that more frames per second = more information = a better sense of exactly how fast the car is going and how long until the pigeon needs to fly away.

]]> By: Alex http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/22/fun-pigeon-facts-super-vision/#comment-231055 Alex Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:51:03 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/22/fun-pigeon-facts-super-vision/#comment-231055 Oops, thanks Angstrom and violet/riga - I've fixed the link. Oops, thanks Angstrom and violet/riga - I’ve fixed the link.

]]> By: cuimhne http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/22/fun-pigeon-facts-super-vision/#comment-230996 cuimhne Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:43:15 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/22/fun-pigeon-facts-super-vision/#comment-230996 Quite interesting :p Pigeons were featured on the show itself too with some quite ingenious ways the military tried to use them to aim bombs in the past! Quite interesting :p Pigeons were featured on the show itself too with some quite ingenious ways the military tried to use them to aim bombs in the past!

]]> By: violet/riga http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/22/fun-pigeon-facts-super-vision/#comment-230891 violet/riga Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:00:27 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/22/fun-pigeon-facts-super-vision/#comment-230891 For convenience, until the post is corrected, here's the link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/portal/2007/09/22/nosplit/ftqifront122.xml For convenience, until the post is corrected, here’s the link:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/p ortal/2007/09/22/nosplit/ftqifront122.xml

]]> By: Angstrom http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/22/fun-pigeon-facts-super-vision/#comment-230762 Angstrom Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:51:21 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/22/fun-pigeon-facts-super-vision/#comment-230762 the link to the telegraph is just the word 'link', not an actual link. the link to the telegraph is just the word ‘link’, not an actual link.

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