How much FPS is real life

[Amias]

On 12/19/2020 at 4:27 AM, LeDetructor said:

Yeah but why does 144fps look smoother than irl

You're seeing artificial pulsing light which your brain is smartly processing into an image, when it moves, your brain is stitching different static images together so it feels like motion. Your brain is essentially calculating motion interpolation from static images. In real life you're seeing a continuous photon stream from every object, pushed out in such magnitude and speed it's continuous. 

 

Think watching a dripping tap, your screen displays multiple static drops to simulate the water dripping out. Real life is the tap running continuously. So in reality what your screen displays is completely different to what you perceive in real life, we're just use to seeing it this way since motion pictures were invented.

 

So your brain is used to seeing this artificial light pulsed at 24-60fps, when you see that light pulsed at 144fps it's suddenly 2 times faster than before and your brain doesn't have to fill in all the gaps and it's closer to real life, so it feels significantly smoother.

 

In real life, the world is effectively infinite fps. For example a standard light bulb will release  6.5 x 10²⁰ photons per second in a continuous changing stream in all different wavelengths. That is an inconceivably large number we will never truly comprehend. A screen by extension will change a red, green or blue stream of photons at 144 times a second.