Showing Camera Shutter Effect
Explore how to model the camera shutter effect on spinning propellers using Python and Numpy. Understand the use of conic sections to create propeller shapes, simulate rotation, and visualize shutter interactions with blades through graphical interfaces. This lesson helps you comprehend why propellers appear distorted in camera images and how to implement such simulations in engineering contexts.
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These are the libraries that you will be using.
import tkinter as tk
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image, ImageTk
Getting set up
This program will use conic sections to compute the ellipses that will represent the propellers. Here is a very high-level mathematical explanation: the absolute value of a complex plane in the third dimension is a cone. Slicing the cone in planes parallel to the x-y plane results in a circle. Anything from the circle down to the Z = 0 plane is a disk. Adding multiple cones offset from the origin results in a solid ellipse, and moving the location of the ellipse around the origin X amount of times results in X number of blades in a propeller. Conic sections continue to haunt you, and this time, they are ...