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Animals and fps

PilsenerPilsener
edited December 2010 in Chit chat
Strange thoughts always appear after bedtime:

We have all seen videos where cats and dogs apparently are watching TV and even trying to catch whatever they (maybe) see on the screen.

But is a cat really able to see a steady picture from a TV ?
Or does the cat's eyes require more fps to see the picture like we do ?
Are they really just chasing the flickering lines ?

Anyone in here who knows anything about this ?
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  • Rebelstar without a causeRebelstar without a cause
    edited December 2010
    I thought this was gonna be a thread about Labradors playing Black Ops. Can't tell you how disappointed i am.
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited December 2010
    Same here, was looking forward to a good discussion of my dog playing Call of Duty and sniping several naz, sorry 'axis'.

    Looks like i'll have to talk about it on the usual forum on www.petsplayinggames.com
  • milemile
    edited December 2010
    they see all the family staring intently at the tv and are prolly curious about the big interest.

    it's unlikely that they understand what a tv is and it would hold the same interest as the microwave.

    sometimes i used to see the cat staring at the fridge, i doubt it was reading the fridge magnets though.
  • Weyland RaWeyland Ra
    edited December 2010
    Dunno about cats, but I had a dog who would watch tv.

    Most of my pets have been totally oblivious to the tv, but one dog we had would watch when any animals came on screen. He would start to bark, and if another dog appeared he would flip out. He must have been able to see it as he never watched except when other animals came on screen.

    Cute dog he was, very clever.
  • PilsenerPilsener
    edited December 2010
    Dogs playing Call Of Duty ?
    At least, it should have been Speccy-games you wished for.
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited December 2010
    i think that they can on british sets but not on american sets?

    dunno why i think that think i read it someplace

    my cat used to like watching snooker, would sit on my lap staring at the screen, and sometimes react when the balls moved

    my dog used to go nuts for the telly when he was a pup, same as with mirrors, but now ignores it, though sometimes barks at things that he hears on it

    pigeons don't watch telly
  • beanzbeanz
    edited December 2010
    Wouldn't the FPS for a cat be the same as for a human, it's not the eye that determines the capture rate but the brain isn't it.
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited December 2010
    Come back threads about Eastenders, all is forgiven ;)

    Seriously though our old cat used to try and tap the players when Match of the day was on, our dog at the moment starts doing weird twisty things with his head when he hears a dog bark on a tv show
  • WinstonWinston
    edited December 2010
    You'll have to ask an optowhatsitscientist (actually, I know one) about persistence of vision. But basically, it's an electrochemical process that's happening in the eye, and chemical reactions (at least ones that don't result in a large bang and bits flying all over the place) are relatively slow.

    Cats and dogs I'm sure see a picture, not just a line moving across the screen, you can see they can recognise and discriminate objects shown on the screen (cat dabbing at a football on the screen, dogs sometimes growl at other dogs on the screen - a friend had a dog that would growl at the TV whenever children were on the screen).
  • sekretssekrets
    edited December 2010
    How many frames per second is existence presented in ?
  • Rebelstar without a causeRebelstar without a cause
    edited December 2010
    Pilsener wrote: »
    Dogs playing Call Of Duty ?
    At least, it should have been Speccy-games you wished for.

    But there aren't any Fps on speccy unless you count Op Wolf.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited December 2010
    sekrets wrote: »
    How many frames per second is existence presented in ?

    Isn't it about 60fps? That's why you can't really detect any difference beyond it on games etc...The eye gains no/not much more info beyond that rate.
  • Matt_BMatt_B
    edited December 2010
    Rebelstar without a cause wrote: »
    But there aren't any Fps on speccy unless you count Op Wolf.

    There's a pretty decent version of Wolfenstein 3D and a few Doom demos.
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