Love vitling's work!

https://www.vitling.xyz/toys/acid-banger/ previously posted

Odd that the music only kicks in for me after I tab away. When I tab back, the music stops.

There's music? I didn't get any at all!

I guess that explains why I couldn't understand the point of this... For a while I thought it was just a kinda cool but nothing special particle effect, and wondered what it was even doing on the HN front-page.

OP:I dunno what the issue is but I didn't get any sound on Android. Might be a bug in your page. Sorry for the detail-free bug report.

For me the audio stutters when I look at it, but it plays smoothly when I am in a different tab.

Same.

I was just gonna write the same thing. First I opened it in Firefox, which works fine for a couple of seconds, then the audio glitches out. Then I decided to try Chrome, as many of these "toys" are ever only tried in Chrome, but then this happened instead.

its neat, but I was left wondering if it was interactive, a movie, etc.

I don't get it

Helped me to have my headphones on.

The noise used in the toy isn't very pleasing to the ears.

To each their own I guess. I listened to it with headphones, and it was very soothing.

Yep. And more importantly, give an indication you're going to make noise, and give people an option to turn it off before it starts.

Add a seizure warning to this please! There is no indication that clicking to proceed will cause flashing and moving lights.

How common is photosensitive epilepsy?

This is when seizures are triggered by certain rates of flashing lights or contrasting light and dark patterns.

Around 1 in 100 people has epilepsy and of these people, around 3% have photosensitive epilepsy. Photosensitive epilepsy is more common in children and young people (up to 5%) and is less commonly diagnosed after the age of 20.

Source: https://epilepsysociety.org.uk/about-epilepsy/epileptic-seiz...

So 3% of 1% is... 3 in 10 000, or 1 in ~3.5k people. That's... much more widespread than I'd suspect.

Common enough.

I wonder if a much better solution than warnings would be something at the OS level analyzing the screen and fading out contrast or something any time it detects flashing patterns that could trigger epilepsy.

iOS has recently added that feature for video sources

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/ios-16-4-beta-how-to-automa...

I think much more common after one visits this site.

I immediately thought about that, my first go at it started with a big glitchy rapidly-flashing ball right in the middle of the screen. (Not sure if it should be like that? iOS safari, iOS16.0) Kind of the worst case scenario.

This just gave me an idea for a browser extension.

How would that work?

The screen would flash anytime you clicked with your mouse.

And a mute button.

This was amazing to me for some weird reason. The synths especially.

Humans exploring space

Scary.

very cool