The Spoke Blur Effect 

Isn't he amazing

That's my immediate reaction as well. I'll show you weird.

When you read that is sounds kinda creepy.

And that self-aware comment is meta (self-referential). Behold the trifecta of RU-vid comments. I win.

@@calcaware woomy

Is that his real name?

Yeah I think

That's not him... .. or is he?

@@josiahpettway5134 You look almost exactly like Josiah Pettway from the top of this comment

Here before people get wooooshed.

Jake! Get back to your room!

I kept waiting for them to bring up the sneaking guy (I thought it would be like the gorilla experiment)

@@alarcon99 SAME

you're*

Mrudula Satarkar woah thats my name

_Madlad_

New Justin Y

Yes because we all know that rain usually stops anything and anyone, any person or thing, even the laws of physics

What a legend

Modern day Jesus

This is easier to watch than trye Vsauce ever was

what

He recently said in h3h3 podcast that Vsauce is gonna have new videos this year

Three more likes to 666....

I know right ? idk why this is on do online now guys .. and Vsauce canals have been dead for some time now.

🤣🤣🤣

Pbuttword. This is a family show.

😂 😂

@@patrickhodson8715 No, it should be sxxw. This is a family sxxw.

Vsause is for Mindfield now, and DONG is for Vsauce.

he only used .0000000005 percent of his power

Me on my siblings zoom.

@@haydeny9420 ong

Wow.....I'm gonna blame my unintentional blindness for not seeing this 😆

I will let it roll and translate.

XDDD

@@aaronjaggan *rotate and translate

A Ghost!?

old but im pretty sure is jake

Very relaxing to me.

It actually was raining on the day this video was made 😂

Why do you say it was an overlay? It has been raining a lot lately.

@@happysmash27 ,​ @markysharky03 what is meant is that they find it relaxing and would love to hear rain sounds in every video.

Rainymood x Vsauce? Best Sunday evening in weeks.

Haha a wild Jake-foot! Those are rare!

JAKE

Woah

Cmon guys we use the metric system. Thats big Meter

Player throws a pokeball

That's genius

lmfao

Lol

it was probably the first 30 digits of pi or something

actually its "mindfield" but he doesn't know that

I believe he has a contract with RU-vid Red to only publish premium content under the Vsauce account

XD n1

You are not alone

😂😂😂

Haha same same

Lol doesn't matter. The eye can't See more than 30 fps!!

ThePilotDude The music starts playing

Honestly, I think it’s just because the main channel is contractually obligated to Mind Field so this one is being used as a back up

I saw that too!

We all have our dreams my friend.

Go kremit commenting after watching Unlike me .-. Hmm

Eh

Michael, your thicc buns never cease to amaze either

I never get tyred of hearing them.

He keeps them all on rotation.

Beautifully worded

Why is this not a pinned comment?!?

Like the brother of Bill Nye

I thought Einstein was that

Amazin

Michael: or was it? **vsauce music starts playing and the cop's breathing heavily**

Lol

When Officer knows Physics:

"The top of your tire was moving at 200 mph"

he mustve forgot the password to vsauce

I like the distinction, dong is for shorter videos that don't have as much brain content like this video.

Yeah, that's how he explained it but except for mindfield episodes, he doesn't upload anymore on Vsauce, i'm a bit dissapointed but we still get some content

The Vsauce logo is at the end of the video just before Curiosity Box

The point right after 2:56 to 3:02 needed some Vsauce music

feelsbadman

RIP in peace..

haha

Damn. So how's afterlife?

F

That's my life aim

"ANARCHY" michael stevens ~2018

And Justin Y

No, I'm HowToBasic!

Okay

Mister Lorax who’s Justin Y.?

Vsauce is dead

Lol

Ah, vintage Meams from the Days of Yore. I do indeed Laughing out Loud upon this one, my friend, and would like to share this on MineCosmos homepage with a textually generated pleased face :-)

creative dude

_top half speedy and blurryyyy top half speedy and blurryyyyy top half speedy and blurry_

Wrong channel fam

And it’s magical! 💫

And where I live it was -10F when this was filmed. Great

The low deserts of the southwest are like that. I live in AZ. Rain is not as common...and usually becomes a deluge, even if in short bursts.

Smart

I think when Michael reads this comment he'll bite his nails and question his life choices. He may be a cool meme-y guy at first sight, but on the inside, he's a perfectionist, and not using the clearest visualization will most likely bother him - a lot.

And the same with walking/running. The legs are flat and stationary on the ground (albeit, one at a time). Meaning one leg will look blurrier than the other.

Nice. I was thinking about how to explain it clearly should the topic come up in conversation and this will help.

he should use a boat, it's motionless, because it is not moving on ground, so it doesn't make contact with the road, and therefore be motionless

It moves faster than your eyes can actually properly see. Basically, think of like a screen that refreshes at 60hz. Your eyes are kinda the same where they can only see so much movement per time frame and it moves a little faster so i just looks like it moved backwards when your brain pieces it together

The next spoke gets in the spot behind where the first one was in the previous position before your brain or the camera shutter can register the next image.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dNVtMmLlnoE.html Here ya go. Enjoy.

Gaunter O'Dimm he does look like Sam Hyde doesn’t he

Gaunter O'Dimm also to all things and men I appertain amiright

Rob Spiess motionless = 0mph twice as fast as that??? still 0mph

@@iBoolGuy The top will have double the speed of the centre of the wheel or the vehicle relative to the surface it's going on

+iBoolGuy twice as fast as the vehicle relative to the ground

@@iBoolGuy you troll?

​@@saudsanchez and I quote: " as the entire bottom is "motionless", whereas the top is "twice as fast". " He literally compared the bottom, and the top of the chain wheel of a tank, comparing them he described, the top being twice as fast as the bottom, which he also described and said, is motionless. Now I'm not trolling, but I think he is. I think I understand what's he trying to say I'm not sure, but maybe he's the one trolling or, mistaken the description.

Time to re-watch "If".

I recommend watching exurb1a. It's basically Vsauce with depressing meta-humor and better jokes about the Universe.

@@MasterChakra7 Nothing beats vsauce but I'll still check it out

Like podcasts? Listen to ‘The End of the world with Josh Clark’ ...that’ll sort you out for existential crisis’!

Star Fox Exurb1a is interesting and hilarious, he makes some of the most quality content on RU-vid

That's what I was hoping this video was going to be about

@@StokeleyZ I see car wheels do this with my own eyes

Another comment asked this question and someone provided the answer, so I'll paraphrase here. When the wheel speeds up, it gets closer and closer to the maximum speed your brain can process the information from your eyes, eventually surpassing it and creating the appearance of reversal. It's basically the same thing that happens if you exceed a screen's refresh rate. If a screen has a 60Hz refresh rate, that means it can process up to 60 frames per second, and anything above that will cause distortion such as screen tearing (which is what VSYNC is for, capping graphical FPS at 60Hz or whatever matches the same rate as your screen). Our eyes essentially have a maximum FPS and anything faster will have a slight delay, causing them to be processed in reverse. Imagine one of those old fashioned flipbook animations. Flipping front to back makes the animation move forward, but flipping the pages backwards makes it play in reverse. That's the effect caused when your brain lags behind. The accelerating wheel appears to slow down then momentarily freeze as the FPS matches the same speed as our brain, then begins "playing" in reverse. You can often see this same effect with old reel film animations. The film reel slows down and appears to play in reverse for a moment! ;)

@@doctor_owl Oh my, that's a lot of information. Good to know

Basically a wheel spinning 9/10th of the way forward between each mental “frame” looks like it’s just spinning 1/10th of the way backwards each time

Hey metal computer guy, pepperthepupper here

*expands Michael*

Basically another new Justin Y

@@user-md3is4dq2d Sans ?

@@void5985 what? Are you referring to my profile picture? My skele is from a game but definitely not undertale

That'd be weird ._.

Imagine not

Let us thank our lord and savior VSauce for this video, amen.

Imagine stealing a comment idea from an old dong video.

The line between DONG and VSauce is blurry. Or is it?

You must be that guy from electronics engineering department 🤔

...very cool.

Indians

look at any tank (tracked). The bottom of the tracks once in contact with the ground.... are completely stationary

It is impossible for any point on a rotating wheel to have velocity since direction is always changing.

Thank you Kadz, very cool

Thank you Nico, very cool

Thank you Aswin, very cool

Hahahaha , this is hilarious lmao , yeet 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 lmaoooo can't breathe hahahaha hahahahahahahahaha

Thank you Usmaan, very cool

BOB ekks dee is a good emoji

That's Vsauce 3

xD

I think I spotted a Jake :)

I didn't even notice him before. Sneak 100.

yes

Why tf are you rolling on the floor???

@@astral6749 epic

get up from there it's filthy,

@@rkp8495 eric*

@@astral6749 the weels are "rolling on the floor" and then we "learned" the spoke blur effect...

This is super confusing to me: Why do I have so many fans on RU-vid even though I am the unprettiest RU-vidr EVER? Good night dear woahahaa

AxxL what?

AxxL stop

AxxL what is wrong with you

AxxL, how much attention do you need, like really.

Lol im surprised no one found your comment.

Ikr

Yes, he is.

Fricking underrated

@@Ash-em5pm watch your language. Despicable

@@ary2766 gash darnit, christian channels..

Was he Jake?

@@Kunal29Chopra Seems so

Oh wow yeah thanks man

It's Jake for sure xD

@@robotraider Nice to see him use his legs.

It's HowTo Basic.

its obviously idubbbz.

Looked like Jake

Agreed! Or with helicopter blades appear to slow down and then start spinning in the opposite direction.

This is in Veritasium Channel Already

@@prof.h.parker1213 do you have a link or name to that video, I cant find it

I wanna know that too.

Rolling Shudder. Explained by SmarterEveryDay and why cameras see the way they do. As for your eyes, I'm not certain, but you can pretend that you see continuous motion in a certain frame rate. Eyes see constantly, but your brain can only process the data so fast. Anyway, wheels spinning forward and backward as they actually get faster is just a product of this phenomenon. If a sensor takes a full image at a time rather than scanning, then you get positional change rather than warping. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dNVtMmLlnoE.html

Gaurav Lawate when people stop bitching about that so never

@@tenx4512 Is it wrong of us to miss those videos?

There's an entire new season of Mind Field On VSauce? Have you not noticed?

Doskii no I’m crying about it rn

@@markfisherectuals forget mindfield, its all youtube red.

sorry to break it to ya but... yeah

Oh boy, there goes this video after seeing my dong pop up

oh

Scathing Lemon, listen, this is the second time I've made a joke about dongs. And been accused for stealing comments, when you click on a video straight away, it doesn't show the comments, unless if someone commented before you even clicked on the notification, which is unlikely, this is also why multiple people comment first at once. Edit: he deleted his comment

Dumbos delete comments sadly

@LEL gaming to youtube red

*Get

@@rombo8911 please explain

@@sweetfruit7769 *let

@@AzulBeats *vet

I was about to say that!

that would be the ONLY ASMR that I will ever like

It made me feel cozy and warm. Rain on the roof always does that to me.

Steven Utter Pseudoscience mumbo jumbo.

Noah the mighty yeah it’s just michael doing videos alone now. That’s why it feels like his mental state is going downhill, he has nobody around

@@doesitmatter1667 he doesnt have nobody, he just has half as less people around him

No youtube red did

Why did I read that as butthole? Hahah😂😂

Was thinking about this too! Wanted to check the comments before asking and I found yours hahaha wonder if there's an explanation for that

It's called Wagon Wheel Effect: www.quora.com/Why-do-very-fast-moving-wheels-seem-to-move-in-reverse

Everyone has.

@@viniizero nice! Ya learn something new everyday 👌💯

@Sassy The Sasquatch It is not at all like the rolling shutter, it is much more like the global shutter. Also it happens rarely in the sunlight, but happens more often when the light comes from the 50/60 Hz lamps.

Hey! What about " *MMM - Michael's math magic* " ???

@@divyansh8596 or Micheal Stevens Living...

@@luqmanwaqiuddin7543 yeahh! * 'the slow poison for weirdness and laughter'!* XD

But how will I observe the spoke blur effect?

@@Moon_Jam08 when you're not driving, start sharing your car, and take turns driving and observing the spokes blur effect. Then you can learn, get to the destination and as a bonus you save the environment.

And wear your seatbelt

That's called the wagon wheel effect. one thing that's interesting is that it only happens when electronic displays are involved. in the case of the wagon wheel effect on your computer screen, this would be because the amount it rotates in one frame is enough to closely match one of its rotational symmetries. if every frame it makes a full rotation around to the starting position, then you will only ever see it in the starting position. if it rotates a little bit more than a full rotation, then it would appear to be rotating forwards slowly, and a little bit less would look like rotating backwards slowly. a perfect halfway rotation every frame would just look like it's flashing back and forth, and a little bit off of half would look like the same flashing but also rotating.

@@PokeNebula it does not only happen on digital displays m8

​@@PokeNebula What you're talking about is related to the framerate a camera captures and the speed at which the image changes. That's how you make the "water flowing backwards" camera trick. But I've seen fans IRL spin so fast that for a second it seems like it's spinning in reverse then slowing down and then slowly switching direction. I think it could also be due to wagon wheel effect due to artificial lighting (tubelight, LED bulbs) which might flicker at a certain frequency and reflect off the blades of the fan.

@@AniketBhatP You are correct. However, I have also personally seen this effect in real time with my own eyes on roads with the sun as the only light source. So unless it also has to do with light bounce and refraction from the road surface interfering with the other photons bouncing off the wheels back to mine eyes... Or simply the inference my brain makes of this mingling of properties as it attempts to translate the experience is up for debate.

I've definitely seen slow backwards rotation of wheels with my own eyes

This comment was too far down for my liking. Have an upvote.

Doesn’t every wheel do this?

The King of all Awesomeness no, they remain stationary. A train has phalanges, which extend below the tracks.