NAME
interaggregate - Visualize the momentary and aggregate
intersections between slowly moving circles.
SYNOPSIS
interaggregate [-display
host:display.screen] [-foreground color] [-background
color] [-num-circles disc count] [-growth-delay
delayms] [-max-cycles maxr] [-percent-orbits
percent] [-base-orbits percent] [-base-on-center]
[-draw-centers]
DESCRIPTION
The Intersection Aggregate is a fun
visualization defining the relationships between objects with Casey
Reas, William Ngan, and Robert Hodgin. Commissioned for display at
the Whitney Museum of American Art.
A surface filled with 100 medium to small sized circles. Each
circle has a different size and direction, but moves at the same
slow rate. Display:
A. The instantaneous intersections of the circles.
B. The aggregate intersections of the circles.
Ported to XScreensaver from the art project "InterAggregate" at
http://www.complexification.net
by J.Tarbell
OPTIONS
interaggregate accepts the following
options:
- -num-circles disc count (Default: 100)
- Number of slowly moving and growing discs to use. The more
discs, the more CPU power.
- -growth-delay delayms (Default: 18000)
- Delay in ms between drawing cycles. More delay, slower (but
smoother and less CPU intensive.) art.
ENVIRONMENT
- DISPLAY
- to get the default host and display number.
- XENVIRONMENT
- to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global
resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
BUGS
- Setting the background to anything besides black confuses the
intensity
- algorithm and will look terrible.
SEE ALSO
X(1),
xscreensaver(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2003 by J. Tarbell (complex@complexification.net,
http://www.complexification.net).
Ported to XScreensaver 2005 by David Agraz.
AUTHOR
J. Tarbell <complex@complexification.net>,
Jun-03
David Agraz <dagraz@mindspring.com>,
Apr-05.