Saturday, April 23, 2011

Gimmicks of digital photography




I had taken this photograph using my Sony Ericsson W760a 3 MP camera a month ago while i was traveling in a car and I was surprised when I looked at it. A fast motion photograph usually appears blurred when using a low ISO but to see the picket fence in the form of rhomboid was surprising.

Today I read an article and identified what i had observed was a rolling shutter effect. It could be defined as a method of image acquisition where the image is recorded not as a single snapshot but by scanning across vertically or horizontally. Though it might spoil a really good pic, it can provide some magical effects.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Simple model to avoid bribes

Announce a huge reward to x who gives the information of person y who offers bribe and punish person y severely. Should work psychologically against offences and offering bribes.

An example

1) A motorist shoots the speed limit. Fine is Rs 300.
2) He offers Rs 100 to the Cop.
3) If the Cop accepts it and later register's the offender's name for offering bribe, he would give a reward of Rs 900.
4) The offender would then need to pay Rs 1000 to the government.

After many instances, the results could be one/more than one of these.

1) The number of offences would reduce
2) The offender would refuse to pay bribe even if the cop is fine with it as he is skeptic of the cop.

Problems

1) Huge cry from the public initially.