Why wrong FOV is not a small issue

[zebramatt]

http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm

Lots of "info" but not a single source to be found.

What'm I, a library? Do some research, ya lazy bum! 

[Mánagarmr]

That's actually a funny thing. People often request sources...but the info has to originally come from somewhere. As in, there has to be an original source. How is that source going to have sources? Sourceception!

[eRe4s3r]

No the real source is the experiment that proves or disproves the claim. The problem is, you can not really measure this, frame rate is very subjective and can even dependent on your state of mind, wakeness or even what you ate (or if you ate at all)

The human brain has no fixed processor speed, and so what we see is not fixed.

[keith.lamothe]

That's actually a funny thing. People often request sources...but the info has to originally come from somewhere. As in, there has to be an original source. How is that source going to have sources? Sourceception!

If you get back to a scientifically valid experiment (preferably multiple ones by multiple sources, etc) then that's typically good enough unless someone's feeling epistemological

[Wanderer]

BTW, so what IS the maximum FPS the human eye can make use of?

Good question. I don't know if there's an exact number for that. It probably varies from person to person, like range of hearing and other such things. I started trying to research it and ran across enough reading material to keep me busy for a while. It probably depends on what you're looking at too. I mean if it's a black screen that blinks white for one frame, how quick would that frame have to be before you wouldn't notice it? 1/100th of a second? 1/1000th? But if it was a black screen blinking dark brown, it would be quite different. Here's a few wikipedia articles I found from some quick searching:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_of_vision
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fusion_threshold

http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm

If you want some scientific testing on this, check out the old marketing technique of flash-frames in movies at drive ins nearing intermission.  Anything for a buck... some people...