re: 2024 NASCAR Season Thread

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These single-pixel-wide images are then fed into a piece of scoring software that sandwiches them one after the other. The resulting image looks nothing like what you’d expect UNLESS an object crosses that single-pixel-wide capture area while in motion. (Notice how the foreground looks super weird? That’s because it’s the same 1-pixel-wide photo stacked against itself thousands of times.)

Then, in the scoring software, you move your pick line (the red line shown) to the point on the object you wish to score. This will pull the exact time from that specific single-pixel-wide image’s metadata, and boom there’s your time.

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This exactly sums up my issue with the system. How and where is nascar focusing this camera? Because of the image(s) it produces we can't tell. Sure it's precise, but is it accurate? (and if you don't know the difference between the two, I can't help you.) Based on the images it releases, we can't tell.