interaggregate(6) XScreenSaver manual interaggregate(6)

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]

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.

interaggregate accepts the following options:

Number of slowly moving and growing discs to use. The more discs, the more CPU power.
Delay in ms between drawing cycles. More delay, slower (but smoother and less CPU intensive.) art.
Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
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.
Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
Draw on the root window.
--window-id number
Draw on the specified window.

to get the default host and display number.
to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
The window ID to use with --root.

algorithm and will look terrible.

X(1), xscreensaver(1)

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

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

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