As described in Douglas Hofstadter’s book ‘Godel, Escher, Bach’, this is what happens when you connect your camera to your TV and point the camera at the screen. The spirals are created by tilting the camera.
Source: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Y-gqMTt3IUg
I’m currently reading this article here which links to the video. The article is about a zip file that contains itself.
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Oooooh-weee-OOOOH…
Great video and great book. 🫶
I used to entertain my kid with this. Have them stand between the camera and the display and they can amuse themselves for a (relatively) long time.
I first learned of this watching sightings in the 90s. Oef course, the show said you would see faces of the dead going frame by frame, but that doesn’t make any sense
This reminds me of a fascinating bit of information that keeps swirling around in my head ever since I listened to that radio show in the 90s. It was about people who listen to messages in radio static, until they believe they hear something there. Of course they record it all, then play back and loop the relevant bits. Listening to it, you think you can hear these messages too. Having been told what they are beforehand, of course.
A little bit like a much later trend of putting fake english subtitles on songs in foreign languages that make it seem like they’re singing extremely silly things in english.
Art Bell’s late night alien radio show?
The delay is considerable. i think this would look different with current technology.
Is there some sound feedback, too? A very high beep, not constantly? Or is my tinnitus playing tricks on me?
IIRC typical online live video streaming today typically has a delay of at least 2-3 seconds, to avoid jitter and stuttering.
That’s how this video was allegedly made, although I’m extremely sceptical
If anything, modern tech introduced much, much more delay. Digital encoding and decoding takes time - and so do packet based transmission protocols.
Back in the day, radio moderators monitored their show by simply having the radio station on their headphones. That was over the day digital workflows were introduced.
