why is time faster in my virtual world?

[billjarrold]

And now for my answer! (Like I said above, the act of writing up this report caused me to dig a little deeper and as a result I solved the problem)...

The problem was made clear when I remembered the hack I did to make them sit (that was the last thing I added to my post). I.e....

sit_and_freeze = vizact.animation(32, freeze = True)
avatar.addAction(sit_and_freeze)
avatar.speed(1000)

....as you can see, I set the avatar speed to be 1000X normal. I had forgotten this and thus did not understand why they were blinking so fast.

I tested my hypothesis by setting speed back to normal and using the blink paramaters from Jeff's original post. Sure enough, the blinking looked natural (though I had to watch the avatar move all around the place while acting out action #32).