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From: Bob Shell <bob@bobshell.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 07:06:23 -0400 (EDT)
Fwd Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 13:51:24 -0400
Subject: Re: Mexico City Footage - Reply From VideoMeister


>From: Leanne Martin <leanne_martin@hotmail.com>
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: Re: Mexico City Footage reply from VideoMeister
>Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 19:06:14 PDT

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>VideoMeister Message:-

>Your concern about the relative edge sharpness of the UFO and
>buildings is a good point. To control for this, I checked
>against both the nearby building and a far one (with the
>triangular shape). The UFO edge sharpness is intermediate
>between the nearby and far buildings. Both buildings showed
>motion-smearing; the far one showed more, as expected from
>theory. (The reason is complicated, having to do with stochastic
>noise, digitizing, and thresholds.)

>So I eliminated edge-contrast as a possibility for creating the
>UFO lack of smearing.

Errr, ummmm.  "stochastic noise"????  Whazzat???  Errol, you
ever hear of such an animal?

"digitizing and thresholds"????  Again, huh??  What's dis guy
talkin' 'bout???

The far buildings would show more motion blur simply because they
are farther away, a principal which applies in camera rotation
regardless of whether it is video, film, or still images.

Imagine the camera in the center of a circle, with a line running
from it to the circle.  Now imagine a smaller circle inside the
other one.  If you rotate the camera through X degrees, the part of
the inner circle bisected by the lines at the beginning and end
of the camera's movement is shorter than the part of the larger
circle.  The inner circle represents the close buildings, the larger
circle the more distant buildings.  Same movement blurs the distant
buildings more.

This involves no complex theory and has nothing to do with any of
the BS in VideoMeister's post.

Bob