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dahartyesterday at 4:59 PM1 replyview on HN

Hold on. Your first video is indeed a rolling shutter artifact. But your second video never shows enough of the string to see the harmonics. When you (for example) pluck with a finger on the 12th fret, you absolutely do have a real physical squiggle vibrating in the string, with one node and two antinodes. With a 7th fret harmonic, there are 3 antinodes, with a 5th fret harmonic there are four. There are squiggles, and you can see them with real slowmo.


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engine_yyesterday at 8:11 PM

Yes, I think that with all these videos what you actually see is aliasing...