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submitted 2 months ago by fpslem@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19704884

A Purdue University student thought he kicked his way to a two-year car lease for making three field goals in a contest held during the Boilermakers’ season opener in West Lafayette. However, the dealership sponsoring the giveaway later reneged on the deal because of a technical. The final kick – a 40-yarder – left his foot just a split second too late on August 31. Car dealerships really cannot help but be bastards, can they?

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[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 32 points 2 months ago

It wasn't even he won a car, either. It was a two-year lease. Also

To get out of some of the responsibility for this PR fuck up, the group attributed the issue to an insurance company...In a post on LinkedIn, Trey Rohrman said Spangler missed winning the Kicks for Cash contest by 0.07 seconds...

Dealerships, insurance companies, they ask really are dirty.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 months ago

If the video was 30 fps, sounds like two frames

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 2 months ago

It was from several different angles, from four? Cams with discrepancies between them.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Jeez, I wonder if they accounted for the rolling shutter to get higher time resolution

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 2 months ago

I know zip about photography, could you explain, please?

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago

Oh, this'll blow your mind. Digital cameras don't capture the entire image all at once. They typically capture one row of pixels at a time, so each row comes from a different moment in time.

So the point I was alluding to is that two adjacent frames in a video carry slightly more timing information than they might appear to based on timestamps.

Specifically, if you have two frames where a dot appears at the bottom and then a second dot appears at the top, you can't be 100% certain that the first dot to appear actually showed up first, or whether it's an artifact of the rolling shutter effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 2 months ago

I'll check out the wiki, but your explanation is pretty simple to understand and concise! Well done and thanks so much!

ETA: just read it. Those distortions in the propeller and helicopter blades are wild. While not being a fan of car dealerships, I'm also not a fan of insurance companies. It would be fascinating to know the answer to this mystery.

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