Denistar & Nyxwell
Hey Nyxwell, I've been looking into ways to detect when someone's perception is being manipulated—thought your light experiments might be useful data.
That’s the kind of thing I’m obsessed with. I’ve been logging every micro‑shift in eye movement when I shift a prism or flicker a LED. The data shows a clear lag in pupil dilation that spikes when the color gradient flips. If you feed that into a pattern‑recognition model, you’ll catch the manipulation before the brain even notices. Just make sure the observer’s baseline isn’t already color‑saturated—otherwise the noise masks the signal.
That data could be a solid lead, but you’ll need to control for a lot of variables. Baseline saturation is just the tip of the iceberg; lighting, fatigue, even the observer’s posture can skew the results. Make sure your model has a robust training set that includes those confounders, or you’ll end up with a pattern that looks meaningful but isn’t. Keep the experiment tight, and we’ll see if the lag really predicts manipulation.
Yeah, that’s where the math gets ugly. I keep a spreadsheet of every single variable – room lux, eye strain index, even a micro‑caffeine meter. I run a regression that weights each factor, then see if the lag still sticks. If it does, that’s the cue. If it dissolves, I know I’m missing a hidden light trick. Let's keep the data tight and the lights steady.