Bullet time

Bullet time (often hyphenated as bullet-time) is a concept introduced in recent films and computer games whereby the passage of time is displayed as extremely slow or frozen moments in order to allow a viewer to observe imperceptually fast events (such as flying bullets). It is often used to create a dramatic effect, as in the film The Matrix.

Related Topics:
Film - Computer game - Time - The Matrix

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The concept also implies that only a "virtual camera," often illustrated within the confines of a computer-generated environment such as a game or virtual reality, would be capable of "filming" bullet-time types of moments. Technical and historical variations of this effect have been refered to as time slicing, view morphing, flo mo, temps mort and virtual cinematography.

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