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by jasonlfunk 744 days ago
Certainly there is an upper limit to what our eyes/brains can perceive. I don’t know what it is, but I’d imagine 1 kHz is getting close.
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"Flicker can be perceived during saccades at frequencies in excess of 1 kHz"

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/147715351243636...

"The temporal modulation appeared as a spatial pattern known as a ‘phantom array’ during the saccade. The appearance of the pattern enabled the discrimination of flicker from steady light at frequencies that in 11 observers averaged 1.98 kHz."

I personally can see it at substantially higher frequencies. And note that displaying 2kHz flicker requires a 4kHz monitor.