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This is a very "clever" thing to do to people: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/03/epilepsy
Of course I went googling for these images and found a couple. I also found this interesting tool: http://tools.webaccessibile.org/test/check.aspx which failed to detect the danger in the few images I found.
I did not have an attack, so I suppose I'm probably not epileptic. But I also noticed that the image was stuttering and unsync'ed due to my cruddy i810 video non-card. Anyway, it occurred to me that you could make custom video drivers for epileptics to use which wouldn't even detect dangerous flicker per se, but rather just control updating of any region of the screen so as to not fall into the danger zone (i.e. if there are significant oscillatory changes occurring at 4-55 Hz, throttle them down to 2 Hz). It'd be easy with these new killer graphics cards, but also sort of a wasteful way to use the processing from a technical and economic standpoint. I wonder how efficient you can make it.
Of course I went googling for these images and found a couple. I also found this interesting tool: http://tools.webaccessibile.org/test/check.aspx which failed to detect the danger in the few images I found.
I did not have an attack, so I suppose I'm probably not epileptic. But I also noticed that the image was stuttering and unsync'ed due to my cruddy i810 video non-card. Anyway, it occurred to me that you could make custom video drivers for epileptics to use which wouldn't even detect dangerous flicker per se, but rather just control updating of any region of the screen so as to not fall into the danger zone (i.e. if there are significant oscillatory changes occurring at 4-55 Hz, throttle them down to 2 Hz). It'd be easy with these new killer graphics cards, but also sort of a wasteful way to use the processing from a technical and economic standpoint. I wonder how efficient you can make it.
