Coherent Merging

The Concept of Coherent Merging

Muybridge of California devised in 1877 the first cinematography example, i.e. a long sequence of still images taken at uniformly spaced times. His approach has been adopted in all storing or conveying methods, including photographic films, magnetic tapes, commonly recorded disks, TV, etc. Nature, however, is not at all like that. Space and time form a continuum the resolution of which is infinitely high in the sense that at any position and at any time we have a definite situation. Current technology often demands a similar continuity for simplicity and said technique provides the means.

Coherent Merging ensues when magnetic disks are written with one image of a movie (or a given subject's section) per circular track, all tracks made contiguous, and imprints on every track united each-to-each with those of its neighbors. Thus, a continuum is formed approaching the ideal as much as we want by thin enough tracks. But then no tracking accuracy is needed since tracks are replaced by a single broad and round band per movie scene (or sectioned subject), usually from the disk's edge to about its middle. The head replays at any point on its path, however fast it moves, a correct image corresponding in time (or in section) to that point.

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