Video of interesting aural and visual stroboscopic effects on the Renfe train from Barcelona to Vich

By Trevor
Posted Friday July 4th 2008 15:06. Updated July 4th 2008 15:21

A malfunction of the public address system produces a rather pleasing strobe:

At the end of this clip, a crude example of the wagon wheel effect, caused by what the brain, fooled by the camera, takes to be a succession of evenly spaced, identical Quercus ilex:

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  1. Trevor
    July 4th 2008 15:23

    (No 2 worked for me at home, but it may not online)

  2. Trevor
    July 4th 2008 15:24

    (You need to let your eyes go a bit)

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