NAME
intermomentary - Visualize the momentary and aggregate
intersections between slowly moving circles.
SYNOPSIS
intermomentary [-display
host:display.screen] [-foreground color] [-background
color] [-num-discs disc count] [-draw-delay
delayms] [-max-riders maxr] [-max-radius
maxradius]
DESCRIPTION
The Intersection Momentary 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 "InterMomentary" at
http://www.complexification.net
by J.Tarbell
OPTIONS
intermomentary accepts the following
options:
- -num-discs disc count (Default: 85)
- Number of slowly moving and growing discs to use. The more
discs, the more CPU power.
- -draw-delay delayms (Default: 30000)
- Delay in ms between drawing cycles. More delay, slower (but
smoother and less CPU intensive.) art.
- -max-riders maxrider (Default: 40)
- Maximum number of 'riders', single dots moving around the edge
of the discs.
- -max-radius maxradius (Default: 100)
- Maximum possible radius of a disc.
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 2004 by Mike Kershaw (dragorn@kismetwireless.net)
AUTHOR
J. Tarbell <complex@complexification.net>,
Jun-03
Mike Kershaw <dragorn@kismetwireless.net>,
Oct-04