interaggregate(6x)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, you're looking at interaggregate(6x) from the XScreenSaver manual — and it's literally here to visualize the momentary and aggregate intersections between slowly moving circles. no cap, that's the whole assignment. 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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]

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💖 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.

it's giving math-but-make-it-a-mood, honestly. 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

interaggregate accepts the following options, bestie:

• --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. 🫶

and the synopsis also has these cameo flags, with no extra description in the original:

• --display host:display.screen — synopsis-only cameo; no extra deets in the original. 🦋
• --foreground color — synopsis-only cameo; no extra deets in the original. 🎀
• --background color — synopsis-only cameo; no extra deets in the original. 🍓
• --max-cycles maxr — synopsis-only cameo; no extra deets in the original. ⭐
• --percent-orbits percent — synopsis-only cameo; no extra deets in the original. 💜
• --base-orbits percent — synopsis-only cameo; no extra deets in the original. 🌸
• --base-on-center — synopsis-only cameo; no extra deets in the original. 🧚
• --draw-centers — synopsis-only cameo; no extra deets in the original. 💫

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🌿 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. 🪟

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🚨 BUGS 🚨

Setting the background to anything besides black confuses the intensity algorithm and will look terrible.

like, do not do it unless you want chaos and regret, bestie. forewarned is forearmed. 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read X(1) and xscreensaver(1) — they're right there, and they're iconic. 👑

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright © 2003 by J. Tarbell <complex@complexification.net>.
XScreenSaver port: David Agraz, 2005.

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

J. Tarbell <complex@complexification.net>, Jun 2003.
David Agraz <dagraz@mindspring.com>, Apr 2005.

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X Version 11 • 6.09 (07-Jun-2024) • interaggregate(6x) — byeee bestie, go visualize some intersections 💖