Sunlight is always doing this. It’s just that we call overlapping projections of a boring white-filled circles “dappled sunlight”.
I c it!
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baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Additionally, if you can make sunlight shine through a tiny hole that is somewhat level with the ground into a dark room or box, onto a flat, white surface, you can often see a projection of the world outside if the sun is hitting everything just right, the image will be upside-down and reversed, but often in full color like a video image.
Naturally occuring camera obscura must have freaked people the fuck out in olden times.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
in the house i grew up in, when the blinds were down in my window i would have a camera obscura for like half an hour each day. it made sick days more tolerable.
mEEGal@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can actually use this, or more generally the shadow of a tree on any sunny day to calculate the distance to the sun !
(Can’t seem to find the video demonstrating it, but I have a feeling it’s from Physics Girl or Up And Atom on youtube)
Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
The ratio of the size of the image to the distance from the pinhole is the same as the ratio of the size of the sun to the distance to the sun.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Only if you know the sun’s size, which kind of presupposes you know its distance.
mEEGal@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Strictly speaking, it’s not required, but I get your point.
In any case, you can evaluate the relative sizes, which is cool enough ! (⚠️ nerd alert ⚠️)
Zkuld@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
how?
mEEGal@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My gut says Thales’ thorem, but this needs checking.
That’s why I was looking for the video
Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
It’s uncanny and special for someone to be looking the other way during an eclipse.
It’s so short and a rare enough even that would make earth a tourist hotspot for extraterrestrials if there ever was interplanetary tourism.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
It’s uncanny and special for someone to be looking the other way during an eclipse.
During the two minutes of totality I tried really hard to take in as much as I possibly could. The light was very weird the entire time and because I wasn’t looking at the sun and moon when it happened, I saw the weird wavey shadow things as totality ended. Absolutely incredible experience and I highly recommend everyone experience it at least once in their life!
InputZero@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unless it was an annular eclipse, or it was a total eclipse and they weren’t in the path of totality. Then this is all they would see. Regardless without eclipse glasses you shouldn’t look at either eclipse at all.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can glance at the sun but don’t stare at it. Even when it’s only 1% visible, it’s putting out enough light to strain or damage your eyes.
Though it’s fine to look at the eclipse with naked eyes when it’s total. You can’t really see the cool effect surrounding the moon during totality with the eclipse glasses on because it’s way dimmer than the sun usually is.
Your eyes will tell you if it’s safe to look. If it’s uncomfortably bright, then you shouldn’t power through that discomfort (and that applies to things other than the sun). If it feels like looking at anything else, then it’s probably fine.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I witnessed a partial one, with eclipse glasses. Still I didn’t have the time or observational talent to notice the effect on the shadows
Hathaway@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Or they had a camera recording.
gmtom@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You only see this during the partial stage of the eclipse, not during totality, which can last a long time.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I witnessed a partial eclipse, didn’t notice the shadow effect. I might pay attention next time…
gmtom@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
joshthewaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
stochastic_parrot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m having a hard time understanding this. How many hands do you have? How can you use 2 hands to create this effect and still hold a camera?
tipicaldik@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We have LED street lights and our driveway is lined with crepe myrtles. Every evening after dark, I can see the grid pattern of the individual LEDs in the shadows on our driveway. It’s trippy when there’s a slight breeze, and all these little “grid shadows” are moving around overlapping each other
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Woah, like an irl glitch or something? Im super intrigued
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can make a hole with your fingers and see the patterns of very bright lights above you, stadium lights etc. It’s just a vertical camera obscura. I remember the 90s solar partial eclipse really well because I was riding home from school, the leaves and even the spokes on my bike projected moons everywhere, it was completely magical.
MasterOKhan@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Best bokeh balls
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Heey, it’s Elden Ring!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Heey, it’s the intro to Heroes on NBC
tdawg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thought it was just my coffee table
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I think you need to turn on antialiasing in your settings
justlemmyin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
<Clears throat> well technically thats shadow of moon multiplied “naturally”.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Bubbles!
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
It’s þe closest þing to being in drugs, wiþout being in drugs, I’ve ever experienced. It gets really surreal in a way hard to explain.
untorquer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Reminds me of a few Cessna’s i worked on.
webp@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Big if true
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ye older Arboreal Eclipse
JoShmoe@ani.social 3 weeks ago
This meme is too real
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
u r 2 real
Triumph@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
The reason this happens is because the tiny gaps between the leaves act as lenses, like in a pinhole camera.
Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
A pinhole camera has no lens. The effect here is like a pinhole camera, but a pinhole camera is nothing at all like a lens. Pinholes diffract light. Lens refract light.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
The diffraction effects from a pinhole camera are not what make them work. In fact, diffraction makes the photographs worse than they otherwise would be. The pinhole makes an effective aperture for photography because it’s small size produces small circles of confusion on the film plane. Ideally, you would make the hole as small as possible, but beyond a certain (small) size, defraction becomes the dominant source of blurring. So the size of the pinhole should be chosen to yield the best balance between geometric blur and diffraction blur.
The diffraction is merely a limit to the smallness of the aperture, and not what creates the image.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yea, but you could achieve this by placing a circle of cardboard in the middle or a ring that you attach to your lens.
I don’t remember the guy but YT shorts I’ve seen a guy testing all sorts of different shapes and filters in front of his lenses or even just in front of his sensor without a lens.
Can’t recall who.
Anyhow
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Our window blinds at school had tiny holes in them for the strings to go through and they had the exact same effect. You could see the eclipse projected once the tables.