One of my favorite eye related articles talks about The Hobbit and why 48FPS looks so bad to some people: http://accidentalscientist.com/2014/12/why-movies-look

One of my favorite eye related articles talks about The Hobbit and why 48FPS looks so bad to some people: http://accidentalscientist.com/2014/12/why-movies-look-weird-at-48fps-and-games-are-better-at-60fps-and-the-uncanny-valley.html http://accidentalscientist.com/2014/12/why-movies-look-weird... It turns out our eyes vibrate a bit(~80HZ) to get a higher information density by injecting noise, increasing sampling above the discrete quantization[1]. His theory is that 48FPS ends up being really close to the nyquist limit and wreaks all sorts of havok on how we process the film. [1] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/69748/using-noise-to-increase-effective-resolution-of-adc https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/69748/using-...