Lillian Hellman

The slowed down indicates a movement slower than usually. This term gets busy in particular to define processes used in the fields of the cinema and mechanics.

Cinema

The slowed down is a visual effect making it possible to slow down an action artificially in order to increase the visual or emotional impact by it. The idle is obtained by filming a scene with a number of Images a second higher at the speed of projection. While passing the recording with a number of images a second normal, the scene, longer, gives the impression to proceed slowly.

This process was invented by the Autrichien August Musger in 1904. It is usually used in films of cinema (in particular in the romantic scenes, of suspense or combat), in sporting retransmissions to detail an action (goal with Football, high jump, arrival of a race, etc) and in scientific applications (for example in Balistique or to study natural phenomena by breaking up their formation).

The visual effect commonly called Bullet time is a technique derived from the idle. This one is more complex to obtain and allows new visual possibilities.

The opposite technique, which makes it possible artificially to increase the speed of an action or to precipitate movements, is the accelerated.

Mechanical

The slowed down is also a mode Moteur low (close to 1.000 tr/min, according to the engines), intended to maintain a spark-ignition Engine moving without actuating the accelerator. It is the subject of an adjustment specific to the level of the Carburateur or injection.