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Originally Posted by Varyon
You don't need photosensitive epilepsy for an entire movie consisting of nothing but flashing screens to be a problem.
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Hmmm, not really. As I mentioned earlier, plenty of the original movies had frame rates below the accepted 24fps for smooth motion, and people watched them just fine. The brain adapts. It knows what the real world should look like, based on experience, and it compensates for most people.
We already have digital technologies that introduce mechanical switching. DLP projectors, for example (using the tech designed by Texas Instruments), can, for some people, result in a visible "tearing" of the image even though it's digital with 60+ FPS. But very few people find it distressing in any way and mostly once they stop focussing on it, they don't notice it. Other digital technologies for projection, such as LCD, don't have this effect, but other limitations can be seen by some people (the "screen door" effect was certainly noticeable in lower resolution LCD at larger screen sizes, for example, because individual pixels because more obvious - not really an issue these days - but not everyone saw it and those who did could still enjoy a movie as after a little while their brain just adapted the image).
Most photosensitivity triggers at specific rates and intensities, too. It's not that all flickering will do it.
Also, remember that a "blank" frame isn't as long as a "full" frame. So what you're really doing is changing the ratio, not suddenly making the blank frame as persistent as the full frame (or even as persistent as a "normal rate" full frame).