Blog Entry © Saturday, January 18, 2025, by James Pate Williams, Jr. Preliminary Virtual Vision Field (VVF) Diagnostic Optometry Test Simulator

I was administered a VVF Test on Wednesday, January 15, at Dr. Brent Brown and Associates Inc office in LaGrange, Georgia. The test consists of using a headset that has an orange circle in the center of the display. The examinee has a trigger device to click each time a white flash occurs. I decided to write a C/C++ Win32 application to simulate the VVF Test. The following two pictures are from a simulated test of one minute in duration. The white flashes are separated by 1000 millisecond (1 second) and their durations are also 1000 milliseconds (1 second).

Positions of the Hits

1 (571, 842)
2 (587, 196)
3 (594, 644)
4 (694, 273)
5 (717, 620)
6 (718, 297)
7 (724, 360)
8 (743, 186)
9 (774, 736)
10 (798, 326)
11 (835, 361)
12 (859, 357)
13 (927, 553)
14 (1040, 848)
15 (1100, 463)
16 (1177, 157)
17 (1195, 552)
18 (1225, 190)
19 (1234, 344)
20 (1253, 606)
21 (1285, 872)
22 (1290, 594)
23 (1297, 391)
24 (1303, 458)

Positions of the Misses

1 (627, 832)
2 (983, 266)
3 (1078, 827)
4 (1191, 788)
5 (1258, 349)
6 (1317, 585)

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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