Well, it is a well known effect, but can be rather longwinded to explain, but the articles for the wagon wheel effect(this is probably similar to the stroboscopic version, the computer screen is redrawn at a certain frequency, the animation is redrawn at some frequency and so on) and temporal aliasing at Wikipedia may help explain the meaning.

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