Strobotorch

Strobotorch is a flashlight signaling app. It is built to request Android torch API behavior transparently while keeping safety and device variance explicit.

The app is not a hallucination tool, not a meditation or psychedelic device, and not a medical or brainwave-entrainment product.

Start Here

• Flashing light safety and evidence background
• Source library and citation notes
• In-repo safety policy
• Android API limits
• Audio reactive mode
• Fractal dimension bias and analysis
• Device reports

Project Boundary

The flashlight should be pointed away from people, animals, traffic, reflective surfaces, and anyone who has not consented to possible exposure. High-rate point-away controls are for signaling and device diagnostics only. Requested Android command timing is not the same thing as measured optical LED output.

Position In Mesmer Prism

Strobotorch sits at the practical safety edge of Mesmer Prism’s patterned-light and altered-perception projects. It is closest to Brain Candy, Fractal Optics, and Optical Movement Illusions because those projects track rhythmic light, temporal structure, fractal variables, and vision-science mechanisms. It also borrows caution from Prophantasia, Phenomenological Control, and Deep Dream, where individual differences, expectancy, simulated hallucination, and community practice claims have to be separated from evidence.

That position does not change the app’s purpose. Strobotorch remains a flashlight signaling tool. It is not an induction system, a state-shift platform, a hallucination experiment, a wellness device, or a clinical intervention.

Public Repository And License

The project is intended to be public, source-visible, and MIT licensed. The license covers the Strobotorch source and documentation in this repository; the third-party Android, Kotlin, Gradle, AndroidX, and Jetpack Compose dependencies remain under their own licenses.