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- From: CDO@IB.RL.AC.UK (C D Osland)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
- Subject: Re: Recording animations
- Message-ID: <9211132203.AA16727@psi.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 22:00:05 GMT
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- On 13 Nov 92 08:56:09 GMT <andreas@DE.UNI-STUTTGART.RUS.AWSTAR> said:
- >In article <9211122319.AA07871@psi.rutgers.edu> CDO@IB.RL.AC.UK (C D Osland)
- > writes:
- >>Certainly YUV creates odd effects with single pixels that are
- >>of significantly different colour to their background - their colours
- >>twinkle like coloured stars. This is, in general, only visible with
- >>still frames.
- >>
- >
- >Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't the twinkling be caused by the
- >interlacing of the video display? So a single pixel would only appear
- >on every second field, i.e. if the pixel is on an even line it would
- >only appear on the field that displays the even lines. Since two fields
- >make a frame this would lead to a blink rate of 25 Hz (with PAL, with
- >NTSC it would be 30 Hz). In that case it wouldn't have to do anything
- >with YUV.
- >--
- > Andreas Wierse | Institute for Computerapplications II
-
- It's caused by the fact that YUV encodes the Y all pixels but U and V
- (I and Q in USA) for the even pixels along a line! This, together
- with interlace, causes the problem. It can be improved by very careful
- anti-alias software.
-
- Chris
-