Quote: "Ouch. What happened between the jump of 50 pixels? What happened that made you have a seizure? Did a ton of different colors suddenly flash on the screen or something? "
What happened during the jump is that I zoned out because it effected me just a little at first... I basically blacked out and didn't know it... then woke up 50 pixels later. When I got closer and stared at the screen it effected me enough to have a full seizure. It was flipping between a totally black screen and this other screen that was slowly filling with white. It's the black/white flipping quickly that caused the seizure.
One type of epilepsy is just like what happened to me during what appeared to be a 50 pixel jump... many kids zone out and stare off in the distance. Some parents think that's normal for their kid so some kids go untreated.
Even though for the most part i'm over it I still avoid strobe lights and flashing scenes on the TV. If you have epilepsy and you see flashing that may effect you... your vision starts to blur and you feel like your drawn into the flashing... like you have tunnel vision... if you don't turn away from the flashing quick enough you'll have a seizure. It's a very weird feeling.
The following is some Darkbasic code that does basically what I did in Quickbasic... Darkbasic is much faster of course so it doesn't take as long to get to the top.
Everybody that tries this code... please don't look at this too long... even if you think it won't effect you. I don't want to be the cause of somebodys seizure.
As an extra caution... do not run this in full screen mode. Running this in full screen mode will be exactly what caused me to have a seizure.
` WARNING!!
`
` This code may cause a seizure if viewed too long.
sync rate 0
sync on
` The fill screen
create bitmap 1,640,480
` The blank screen
create bitmap 2,640,480
set current bitmap 1
y=480
do
if y=>0 then line 0,y,640,y:dec y
copy bitmap 1,0
sync
copy bitmap 2,0
sync
loop
