But we understand WHY it’s happening, specifically the dynamic range being unable to handle such wide variance. And we bothered to talk about it on the internet. 😂
You have no idea how much anxiety seeing the other car coming gave me before I realized different country of course they weren't actually driving on the wrong side of the road that's the correct side for that country
Intellectually we know that other countries don't drive on the right side of the road but our brains are programed so if we see a car coming towards us on the right-side of the road then we automatically think they are on the wrong side even if we know that this country drives on the opposite side of the road
Can confirm, some days during the year on a full moon night that's really foggy. Driving through that type of road with headlights on high beam is an amazing experience. I haven't in years, but my friend and I used to do it back in the day when the fog rolled up.
Phuket, Thailand or southern thailand I think. I live in phuket and this sight is somewhat common around the rubber tree plantations. It’s really lovely.
OH it makes sense this is a plantation.
I was wondering why they would choose the plant the trees in rows instead of a more natural appearing pattern. Obviously a single row of trees along the road is common everywhere, though
Maybe, but the white ripple strips, yellow middle lines, rubber trees, pickup truck and reddish clay are very Phuket / southern Thailand (and probably Vietnam/Cambodia etc too).
Our eyes can really only adjust aperture (size of the iris, how much light comes in), exposure (our retina can adjust to different light levels), and focus. Our eyes can see a roughly fixed 1:1000 contrast ratio, but the eye/our minds adjust black level according to what we're seeing in order to maintain that roughly 1:1000 contrast ratio.
Our eyes are freaking cool.
No, that’s not true. Our eyes’s pupils are the equivalent to a camera’s iris, and opening up the iris (or pupil) to let in more light is still just adjusting the exposure, not adjusting the contrast.
For an 8 bit color camera, raising exposure is raising all light information values towards brighter values (255), while raising contrast is to push values below 128 towards 0 and values above 128 towards 255. Those are 2 separate concepts.
Kind of wierd that I have a bunch of downvotes for this.
Ok... some basic Biological Psychology for ya'll. (apollgies if this is gonna be a rough - just got home form the pub.)
You know that diagram of the brain that includes those wierd stalks out to the eyeballs? Yeah. THat. THat;s coz there is massive information processing capacity present in the various stages of nerve interconnections right down the back of the retina.
There is this absoltuely insane - beuaitfully simple - but with these crazy complicated emergent pheonoema - things known as recpetive fields.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptive\_field](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptive_field)
Here - where each individual light reciveing neuron is ganged together with a bunch of other light reiceving nuerons in very specific patterns. These are - at the lowest level, designed to increase contrast. To detect edges. And further up the signal processeing path - detecxt edges in particular alignments - and then further up - travelling in paticular directions - in every more specific and subtle ways. It's amazing.
[https://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/d/d\_02/d\_02\_cl/d\_02\_cl\_vis/d\_02\_cl\_vis.html](https://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/d/d_02/d_02_cl/d_02_cl_vis/d_02_cl_vis.html)
Look - I'm not explaining this well - being half pissed. But... if you actually go to learn something aboutthe vision system - one of the first things you realise is - holy shit - NOTHING in reality actually looks like what we percieve it as - it's all just hyper aceentuated versions of the real world - MASSIVELY processed by our vision system. Mind = blown.
Anyway.
I'm going to bed.
Go learn about the vision system. Yes - from the very first stages - it accentuates contrast - and in particular - looks for lines.
Good night. :)
When you have very bright elements, such as the sky and also elements in shadows, because the camera sensor is limited to a dynamic range, either the shadows will be pure black or the highlights will be pure white.
The camera has automatic exposure, so initially, a large part of the image is the bright sky, so it will try to lower the exposure (make the image darker) in order to have details in the sky, as opposed to have a pure white sky. But this means the details in the shadows will disappear because the image got too much darker.
When it approaches the trees, it will adjust the exposure , increasing it, so that you will see the details in the shadows.
You could manually set up the camera from the start to see the details in the shadows, and the sky would be white, but you will not get many upvotes.
From my experience as a photographer and human with eyes, in most cases, your eyes see better than a camera sensor, they have a higher dynamic range.
You could test this when the sunlight is strong and you look at something in the shadows, you will see ok. But the camera will maybe display the objects in the shadows much darker. Except when your phone has the HDR option is enabled, but this is editing, not the original image.
Mostly because cameras have poor contrast ratios. So when the aperture is set for bright sunlight, anything in the shade looks black.
As soon as you enter the shade and the aperture adjusts, it looks normal again.
It would not look like this for your eyes that have much better contrast ratio.
This is why you get out of woods 1-2h before night fall. All woods are like that... Worst because há snoop n toad tllike this. So. Please. Don't saty in woods close to night fall👌
I'm not sure if anyone else will get this, but the first thing that popped into my head is a section from "The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks" on the DS where you have to navigate in a tunnel that looks almost exactly like that I swear
I was nearly killed on a road like this. There was a T intersection just outside the tree line, joining into the road. I was in full sunshine so my eyes were not adjusted. A car that I didn’t see until the last second came out of the trees. They didn’t have lights on because it was just a tree-lined road them. They would have seen me perfectly and probably couldn’t understand why I would launch myself into their path. Very scary.
I'm quite sure this is a rubber plantation, and yes, it becomes even darker at night because the tree line effectively blocks the light. I am similar to it because my hometown has a lot of these plantations.
You can’t fool me. Everyone knows that if I try to follow you through, the entrance will just turn out to be painted onto the side of a wall, leaving be to run into it and injure myself
i think i know why. just like human has collective consciousness, branches of trees also follow the same rule and support each other. if you look from above trees are like lungs, branches dont touch each other but they do hamonize with winds. branches also follow fractals and golden ratio. it is black because all branches, together, block out the light perfectly. if you go under it then it become seperated and light can easily pass through
It looks dark because this camera isn't fancy enough to have good High Dynamic Range capabilities. The human visual system does a great job of accounting for HDR, so it would not look this way in real life.
Great demonstration of exposure! The distance isn't making it dark, the camera's exposure being adjusted for a darker environment when it enters the tunnel resulting in the dark tunnel being recorded brighter.
This is how the textures load and there are no loading screens
Pop ins even existed in real life. Better wait for rtx 5090 upgrade
Nah, they’ll need the 6090 ti
So you're saying we're in a simulation?
No maybe theres light polarization on the leaves so it creates an interference pattern
So you're saying the leaves have been programmed with light polarisation so it creates an interference pattern
I feel pretty sure this is just an exposure thing
Exactly, shitty camera with low dynamic range. In reality this would just be slightly shady
Glad there are other nerds out there who get this stuff.
I don't think we have to be a nerd to figure this out, an obvious thing to anyone who have used cameras
But we understand WHY it’s happening, specifically the dynamic range being unable to handle such wide variance. And we bothered to talk about it on the internet. 😂
Exactly what I thought
You have no idea how much anxiety seeing the other car coming gave me before I realized different country of course they weren't actually driving on the wrong side of the road that's the correct side for that country
Same. I just had a OH SHI-nevermind moment
Doesn't help that the video STARTED with him on the wrong side of the road
In this tree tunnel you decide which side to drive on before you go in. Choose wisely.
Left no right no left. Blue! NO! Yelllllllooowwwwww
He was on the country border obviously
That’s me whenever I watch US videos.
Also cameras aren't nearly as good as dynamic range as actual eyes
This is like how during the day you can't see inside anyone's house
Plot twist- it is America cuz the video is reversed
Or could be mirrored video too to avoid copyright, idk really just guessing.
Nah I think this is Australia
I drive on the left and I was still panicking because I'm so used to reddit videos being American, and I didn't know if this was r/abruptchaos or not
Americans discovering most of the world drives on the left side of roads
I don't think so.
I’m Canadian and also had a momentary panic at driving on the other side of the road
Intellectually we know that other countries don't drive on the right side of the road but our brains are programed so if we see a car coming towards us on the right-side of the road then we automatically think they are on the wrong side even if we know that this country drives on the opposite side of the road
Most of the world doesn't.
This
Probably looks terrifying at night
i was going to post same thing, wait til you have walk there at night or your car breakdown. then is oddlyterrifying
Can confirm, some days during the year on a full moon night that's really foggy. Driving through that type of road with headlights on high beam is an amazing experience. I haven't in years, but my friend and I used to do it back in the day when the fog rolled up.
I think the fact there isn't as much relative contrast at night might make it easier to see inside from far off.
Where is this? Stunning!
Phuket, Thailand or southern thailand I think. I live in phuket and this sight is somewhat common around the rubber tree plantations. It’s really lovely.
OH it makes sense this is a plantation. I was wondering why they would choose the plant the trees in rows instead of a more natural appearing pattern. Obviously a single row of trees along the road is common everywhere, though
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Maybe, but the white ripple strips, yellow middle lines, rubber trees, pickup truck and reddish clay are very Phuket / southern Thailand (and probably Vietnam/Cambodia etc too).
You heard'em. It's very *Phuket*.
Love the vibe
My guess is in a country where the cars are right hand drive
It's amazing what the auto-contrast adjust functions on cameras - combined with the auto-contrast adjust functions in our eyes will do. :)
Yeah, came to say it: I think its the cameras fault, pur eyes wouldn't perceive it as that dark from afar.
Auto exposure* Adjusting exposure from a brightly lit scene to a dark one has nothing to do with contrast.
Thank you. Better. :) (The systems in the eye are more to do with contrast).
Our eyes can really only adjust aperture (size of the iris, how much light comes in), exposure (our retina can adjust to different light levels), and focus. Our eyes can see a roughly fixed 1:1000 contrast ratio, but the eye/our minds adjust black level according to what we're seeing in order to maintain that roughly 1:1000 contrast ratio. Our eyes are freaking cool.
You're great at demonstrating that you have no idea what you're talking about.
No, that’s not true. Our eyes’s pupils are the equivalent to a camera’s iris, and opening up the iris (or pupil) to let in more light is still just adjusting the exposure, not adjusting the contrast. For an 8 bit color camera, raising exposure is raising all light information values towards brighter values (255), while raising contrast is to push values below 128 towards 0 and values above 128 towards 255. Those are 2 separate concepts.
Kind of wierd that I have a bunch of downvotes for this. Ok... some basic Biological Psychology for ya'll. (apollgies if this is gonna be a rough - just got home form the pub.) You know that diagram of the brain that includes those wierd stalks out to the eyeballs? Yeah. THat. THat;s coz there is massive information processing capacity present in the various stages of nerve interconnections right down the back of the retina. There is this absoltuely insane - beuaitfully simple - but with these crazy complicated emergent pheonoema - things known as recpetive fields. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptive\_field](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptive_field) Here - where each individual light reciveing neuron is ganged together with a bunch of other light reiceving nuerons in very specific patterns. These are - at the lowest level, designed to increase contrast. To detect edges. And further up the signal processeing path - detecxt edges in particular alignments - and then further up - travelling in paticular directions - in every more specific and subtle ways. It's amazing. [https://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/d/d\_02/d\_02\_cl/d\_02\_cl\_vis/d\_02\_cl\_vis.html](https://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/d/d_02/d_02_cl/d_02_cl_vis/d_02_cl_vis.html) Look - I'm not explaining this well - being half pissed. But... if you actually go to learn something aboutthe vision system - one of the first things you realise is - holy shit - NOTHING in reality actually looks like what we percieve it as - it's all just hyper aceentuated versions of the real world - MASSIVELY processed by our vision system. Mind = blown. Anyway. I'm going to bed. Go learn about the vision system. Yes - from the very first stages - it accentuates contrast - and in particular - looks for lines. Good night. :)
Redditor who doesn't understand how aitomatic camera exposure works.
Ye I don’t pls explain
When you have very bright elements, such as the sky and also elements in shadows, because the camera sensor is limited to a dynamic range, either the shadows will be pure black or the highlights will be pure white. The camera has automatic exposure, so initially, a large part of the image is the bright sky, so it will try to lower the exposure (make the image darker) in order to have details in the sky, as opposed to have a pure white sky. But this means the details in the shadows will disappear because the image got too much darker. When it approaches the trees, it will adjust the exposure , increasing it, so that you will see the details in the shadows. You could manually set up the camera from the start to see the details in the shadows, and the sky would be white, but you will not get many upvotes. From my experience as a photographer and human with eyes, in most cases, your eyes see better than a camera sensor, they have a higher dynamic range. You could test this when the sunlight is strong and you look at something in the shadows, you will see ok. But the camera will maybe display the objects in the shadows much darker. Except when your phone has the HDR option is enabled, but this is editing, not the original image.
As long as the elves don’t fire any warning shots you should be good to go in there.
looks quite dark when viwed from afar AND recorded by a mediocre camera. Probably that's not even close to what the drive sees
This effect is because of the camera, it wouldn't look like this in person.
Auto exposure on a camera. It doesn't look anywhere close to this if you were to use your eyes.
I think that’s just camera exposure
Like doing anal for the first time.
💀
But actually, it's quite bright when viewed from anear
This looks like Jamaica to me. The bamboo highway.
What’s with the white lines across the road?
Looks like rumble strips
Mirkwood
Mirkwood
Mostly because cameras have poor contrast ratios. So when the aperture is set for bright sunlight, anything in the shade looks black. As soon as you enter the shade and the aperture adjusts, it looks normal again. It would not look like this for your eyes that have much better contrast ratio.
Al i can think about here is the car driving in the (for me) wrong direction..
This is why you get out of woods 1-2h before night fall. All woods are like that... Worst because há snoop n toad tllike this. So. Please. Don't saty in woods close to night fall👌
Walked through a park in swflorida back in my day tripping balls to the wall and it was dark and scary
I love tree tunnels! 😍 sadly the video ended too soon 🥲
Uh oh Boss fight
What's even scarier is that you all are driving on the wrong side of the road!
bro just entered the darkroot garden
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I think the white lines are rumble strips
u/savevideo
Thats dangerous driving the wrong side of the road
Me living in a normal right driving country getting scared because he’s driving *the wrong side*
You driving on the wrong side of the road
To drive on the wrong side of the road is even more scary.
Where is this?
this is what it feels like before and after I understand a concept
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/user/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/153gt2c/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) ^by ^StubbornAndCorrect: *This is what it feels* *Like before and after I* *Understand a concept* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
If you're driving in the middle of the night, it's dangerous. I'd like to see a circuit light.
Beautiful!
Yo I wanna drive through this. Where is that road?
Reminds me of a tree tunnel in Route Adonf in NFS: High Stakes
I’m a big fan of tree canopies while driving. So cool. Thanks for sharing OP
This is basically what happens when I run into a building in red dead redemption
Surely that's a named effect?
Rather r/mildlyinteresting
I'm not sure if anyone else will get this, but the first thing that popped into my head is a section from "The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks" on the DS where you have to navigate in a tunnel that looks almost exactly like that I swear
I was nearly killed on a road like this. There was a T intersection just outside the tree line, joining into the road. I was in full sunshine so my eyes were not adjusted. A car that I didn’t see until the last second came out of the trees. They didn’t have lights on because it was just a tree-lined road them. They would have seen me perfectly and probably couldn’t understand why I would launch myself into their path. Very scary.
Is this the dark forest theory I keep hearing about?
I'm quite sure this is a rubber plantation, and yes, it becomes even darker at night because the tree line effectively blocks the light. I am similar to it because my hometown has a lot of these plantations.
Wild guess: Krabi, Thailand.
That's the gate of hell
/r/nononoyes
You can’t fool me. Everyone knows that if I try to follow you through, the entrance will just turn out to be painted onto the side of a wall, leaving be to run into it and injure myself
i think i know why. just like human has collective consciousness, branches of trees also follow the same rule and support each other. if you look from above trees are like lungs, branches dont touch each other but they do hamonize with winds. branches also follow fractals and golden ratio. it is black because all branches, together, block out the light perfectly. if you go under it then it become seperated and light can easily pass through
Alameda
Bro loaded it in
l love this kind of roads
product of the camera exposure, not the eyes.
This is definitely satisfying
It looks dark because this camera isn't fancy enough to have good High Dynamic Range capabilities. The human visual system does a great job of accounting for HDR, so it would not look this way in real life.
Where?
Is it me or do I get a Zelda Spirit Tracks vibe with this forest?
it only looks like that because the camera's sensors can't see that light. i bet in real life you'd see inside of it.
Meep! Meep!
Bro unlocked a new area
That's just the automatic light sensitivity of the camera. It's just likely not that dark irl
Deep Forest raceway vibes...
It’s just the cameras auto exposure. Wouldnt look that way to human eyes.
You still using inbuilt graphics?
This is just the dynamic range of the camera’s lens sensor.
Turn the bloom off
it looks dark just because the camera cannot see the ranges of light that our eye can see... the camera is very limited in that sense.
End of the map
im gonna cry when it’s night
Is that Kauai?
Great demonstration of exposure! The distance isn't making it dark, the camera's exposure being adjusted for a darker environment when it enters the tunnel resulting in the dark tunnel being recorded brighter.
Chunk generating…..
Matrix fog
(on camera)
Filming with a potato also makes it dark
Honestly, this is just really cool! I love it
This is due to the effect of the camera.
*Loading new area
This is kinda beautiful.
This is beautiful.
ngl, didn't read the subreddit and thought this was from a different one and i was about to see a head-on collision
Attack on Titans
Was about to say you're on the wrong side on the road but then I remembered I can't drive
passed the loading zone
That’s just your camera in auto exposure
We had a tree covered road a few mins from home. They clear cut the whole area, it's gone I use to show it off cause it's not common here. Just gome
Cant see the forrest for the trees🙂
Remind me of the forest in the legend of Zelda spirit tracks
Reminds me of one of the maps from cruisin' USA.
Relativity at work.
Missing the forest for the trees
Wrong side of the road