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There's an interesting related effect where zooming drastically changes perceived speeds. Here's a video from optical illusion researcher Kitaoka, where a train appears to be rushing along or crawling, depending on the zoom: https://twitter.com/akiyoshikitaoka/status/12246910321738424...



I mean, it's pretty clear that the change in perceived speed is because of the lower "screen space" velocity of features at the edges - The more you zoom, the closer to the vanishing point the edges of the video are, and thus the slower the pixels 'move' outward.




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