A Simulation of How FinishLynx Cameras Work
- A FinishLynxline-scan camera only sees a very narrow piece of the world
- the finish line. It looks at the finish line many times a second and stores
each of these images. The animation on the left side of the simulation shows
35 "images" of the finishline shown one after another. You will
notice that it looks like a moving picture of horses running through the finish
line. The animation on the right shows these same "images" placed
one beside the other in a way that mimics how the FinishLynx software assembles
the images. Each image represents a fractionally later moment in time. Reading
a time is simply a question of identifying which "image" contains
the moment when a runner crossed the line by placing the hashline there. Because
the images are time-indexed by the software, the runner's time is instantly
displayed when the hashline is positioned.
