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🎞️ Animation: Frame Rates & Persistence of Vision

Explore why flipping still frames looks like motion: control a spinning spoked wheel's true speed, camera sampling rate (fps) and visual persistence time to see the wagon-wheel aliasing effect and how afterimages fuse into smooth apparent movement.

Perception & Optical Illusions3DModerate60 FPS

⚙ Under the hood

Explore why flipping still frames looks like motion: control a spinning spoked wheel's true speed, camera sampling rate (fps) and visual persistence time to see the wagon-wheel aliasing effect.

Three.jsperceptionframe ratepersistence of visiontemporal aliasing

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install