Persistence of vision

Persistence of vision

Persistence of vision is the theory that your eyes keeps the image your eye has captured for half a second, this means that everything we see is a suitable blend of everything we see now and everything we see fractions of a second ago, this can explain the blurry vision people see when something is moving fast.

Example of persistence of vision.

A Zoetrope is an example of persistence of vision, this is because it is a series of images in a circle, inside a cardboard circle with slots cut into it, the idea is that you look through the slits and spin the circle, because of the speed in which you see the pictures spin around, it appears as if the image is movie, this could be because of persistence of vision.

Here is an example.