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Originally Posted by Darius van H interesting fact: Dither was discovered/invented by the Germans in WWII.....they noticed that their air-borne gunners were more accurate then land-based ones....eventually they realized that the vibrations of the plane were talking up the slack in the the gun mechanism, resulting in more accurate shooting.
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or maybe if you are a ground based gunner and you missed you just missed, but if you are an airborne gunner and you missed the fighters shot you down.
I heard a VERY similar story about WWII airplanes providing a metaphor for dither but in the version I heard, instead of a gun, it was a mechanical inertial guidance system, basically a clockworks thing that performed better in the air than on the ground due to the plane's vibration loosening up the gears. Also, it was British planes in the story I heard.
I also read it on the internet!
