$100-140 for a pair of glasses without being tripped into a migraine or similar so that one can volunteer to play foldit doesn't sound too reasonable a solution. In fact it just sounds like more of your *Apologetics, Steve.
This problem is a well-known issue in computer graphics and if I remember correctly, it first came to light with cartoons back in the 1980s, whose rapid color shifts were found to cause epileptic seizures in children, both those who actually had epilepsy and others.
One would think that since the project claims to have children as a primary target audience, they would consider this a more serious issue, in fact one which requires remedy, rather than your tact.
*From wikipedia: Colloquial usage
Today the term "apologist" is colloquially applied in a general manner to include groups and individuals systematically promoting causes, justifying orthodoxies, or denying certain events, even of crimes. Apologists have been characterized as being deceptive, or "whitewashing" their cause, primarily through omission of negative facts (selective perception) and exaggeration of positive ones, techniques of classical rhetoric. When used in this context, the term generally has a pejorative meaning.
you're right xiando…Steve is trying to promote something that is damaging to the entire public, better known as "the evil foldit".
With his pathetic "glasses" thing, other than calling an ambulance, he's trying to sooth a gaping wound with a bandage.
He must be the devil in a bad disguise, no?
So, what should we do about it?…I think it's obvious…let's close down the entire internet with its evil flickering monitors that are needed to view it.
After that we'll dance around a huge fire as we burn all the televisions of the world.
Thanks for your enlightining words, dear.
for all the normal people though:
first of all, if you get a real migraine from foldit, you wouldn't be able to stick around long enough to get addicted to the game in the first place, as you will be the person shooting anything and everything that makes a noise, before hiding under your blankets.
And then there is a group of people who do get headaches from flickering lights, and that is apparently something the folding team is made aware off now, and will try to work on as far as possible. The people who actually are susceptible to headaches caused by flickering lights will benefit from the glasses (or similar glasses) that Steve mentioned. That's not a foldit thing, it's general knowledge.
Perhaps you should try the glasses X, since you obviously are reading things into my post which aren't there.
The only time you post here is to belittle others, criticize the developers, or prattle about something you interpret in some narrow minded way to be offensive to your view of how people should act. I find it funny how much better than everyone you think yourself to be, yet you seem to have nothing better to do than troll message boards on a game you don't even play and share opinions nobody cares about. Since everything done here is wrong in your opinion, why don't you take some of that spare time you have set aside for researching new ways to insult complete strangers on anonymous message boards and create something better ?
I had similar health problems some time before, but not that bad.
If the background wouldn´t be redrawn, just only the protein (which would make a tracing effect), the frame and color changes (which cause migraine and vertigo) won´t be that much.
I`ve written a small prototype formula application, which smoothes the transition between picture frames.
It checks, if the brightness-change between two frames is too big, and if so, the Colour-information is adapted slower, which gives a blurring effect (similar to Dynamic Range), but it is better for people who have problems with flickering.
You can adjust the speed of transition from dark to light and light to dark independently.
The concept I had with this software is just the same as multiband-limiters or -compressors for audio do. Accordingly it does dynamic-range-compressing for video, such as video-converting software does.
I´ve got the algorithm, but no knowledge in programming graphic driver filters for fullscreen and real-time.
I hope the Graphic-Card-Companies will implement this feature into their graphic drivers (as they currently do it with gamma-correction, Anti-Aliasing and other tuning features).
As you can turn of the pulsing by extended view options, this post seems to be obsolete now.
