	"mindwarp" v0.0
Requires a PC with a decent SVGA that does 1K768 by 256 colors.

This is not release-quality software.  This is not beta-quality
software.  This is not even Microsoft-quality software.  This is one
particular mode that was easy to write (roll the palette by 48 bytes
per tick...) of a currently-being-written program that's an offshoot
of an unwritten successor to an unreleased program.  It is not
robust, it does only one thing, and it may well bomb horribly, blow
out your monitor, and slash your eyeballs with horrid glass
shrapnel.  I don't care, and there will never be a bugfix version.
I just thought people might like to see this program, and in
particular to see a particular visual effect it can induce.

Upon running the program, you will first be privileged to wait while
it draws the screen.  This takes about 20 seconds on my box; *please*
tell me if it's intolerably slow on yours.  The only code left to
bum much time out of is the polygon routine -- I'm reluctant to
get into that, but might be convinced.

While you're waiting, look around and find something with a
reasonably long straight edge a few feet away -- door, blinds,
poster, whatever.  A patterned ceiling works too.  And put on some
appropriate music, if you like. 

OK, now we're at the cool part.  Look steadily at the center of the
thing for oh, thirty seconds.  Less will work, but you want the
first experience to be dramatic, right?  After you've done that,
look at your straight line.  I won't tell you what to expect, but
suffice it to say that several people have made vocal expressions
of, well, of noise I guess.

Warning, only somewhat facetious: I've been looking at this thing a
fair bit while coding it, and now the wall keeps flashing giant
fractal vortices at me.  And I found one in my cup of water.  Most
likely they have crystallized in my brain.

Credits:
   I'm using Jordan Hargrave's excellent SVGA bgi driver.
Bugs: 
   Sometimes under Windows (why does this not surprise me?) the
palette twiddling goes *much* too fast.  It's supposed to be more
like 20/sec.

(Vaporware plug: if this wigs you out, wait until you see the real
thing, Synesthesia IIx (i.e. variant `x' of the on-paper-only Syn 2
(which will theoretically have real-time sound input (hence the name)
like Syn 1 (which is unreleased).)!)

Have fun.
	Eli

(send comments/suggestions/problems to ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu)
