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intermomentary(6x)	      XScreenSaver manual	    intermomentary(6x)

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] [-fps]

DESCRIPTION
       The Intersection Momentary is a fun visualization  defining  the	 rela‐
       tionships  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.

       The circles begin with a radius of 1 pixel and slowly increase to  some
       arbitrary  size.	  Circles are drawn with small moving points along the
       perimeter. The intersections are rendered  as  glowing  orbs.   Glowing
       orbs  are rendered only when a perimeter point moves past the intersec‐
       tion point.

       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.

       -fps    Display the current frame rate and CPU load.

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 prop‐
	       erty.

       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@kismetwire‐
       less.net)

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

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

X Version 11		      5.07 (10-Aug-2008)	    intermomentary(6x)
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