The TV is exploiting the fact that your brain can't process the information. It knows you're not going to notice it. So it can, it can raster. It could do things on a shorter time skill than your brain can process and your brain makes it all look like it's one. That's the principle of film,. The old rotoscopes. You have them go by fast. It looks like it's actually moving becauseyour brain can't figure it out. Your brain can't do it. But if you could see that at thousands of a second increments, you'll watch it percolate through the flock. And that behavior would then be apparent. Because our sensory system
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s interview with Alan Rickman concludes with a discussion of “the mysterious mechanism of acting and theatre and storytelling” and the use of special effects in the Harry Potter movies.
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