What's the framerate of your current computer monitor?
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@mikoto woah, 165 Hz is pretty unusual!
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@steffo 240Hz
I know, it's ridiculous 
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@steffo refresh rate ≠ frame rate
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@fifo oh, true, that was the term i was looking for and couldn't think of!
can't edit without resetting the poll though
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I had heard that the human brain only "refreshes" the image at about 40Hz, but that was from a 1990s miniseries on the brain. There may be better data now.
Also, people tend to be sensitive to flicker at higher rates than the brain's main "refresh rate."
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personally i'm able to tell the difference between 60 Hz and more in most cases, such as when scrolling or when playing games
not sure how high i can tell the difference though
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I think a lot of this is because each frame is very discrete, whereas in real life, the "frames" are blended.
Like if they recorded 24fps movies by taking 96Hz video and only taking every four frames and showing that onscreen, it would be way more annoying than if the film was recorded at 24fps, or if all four frames were blended to combine 96 down to 24Hz.
So what we're noticing is the jumps in the motion @ 60Hz, not so much the actual visual difference between the image being updated 60 vs 90 times per second.
Does that make sense?
If you took an animation sequence, rendered it at 240Hz, and blended those frames down to 60Hz, I'd wager that you might not be able to tell the difference between true 240Hz and 240 smoothly blended down to 60Hz.
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I think we're more sensitive to flicker than anything else. Not sure why.
I think persistence of vision (e.g. flicker) is different from the actual perception of vision.
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