interaggregate - Visualize the momentary and aggregate intersections between slowly moving circles.

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS ENVIRONMENT BUGS SEE ALSO COPYRIGHT AUTHOR

NAME

interaggregate − Visualize the momentary and aggregate intersections between slowly moving circles.

interaggregate [−−display host:display.screen] [−−visual visual] [−−window] [−−root] [−−window−id number] [−−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] [−−fps]

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.

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.

−−fps

Display the current frame rate and CPU load.

−−visual visual

Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.

−−window

Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.

−−root

Draw on the root window.

−−window−id number

Draw on the specified window.

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.

XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW

The window ID to use with −−root.