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

intermomentary [-display host:display.screen] [-foreground color] [-background color] [-num-discs disc count] [-draw-delay delayms] [-max-riders maxr] [-max-radius maxradius]

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

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.

X(1), xscreensaver(1)

Copyright © 2003 by J. Tarbell (complex@complexification.net, http://www.complexification.net).

Ported to XScreensaver 2004 by Mike Kershaw (dragorn@kismetwireless.net)

J. Tarbell <complex@complexification.net>, Jun-03

Mike Kershaw <dragorn@kismetwireless.net>, Oct-04