I developed a few other programs in addition to drug_test. I don’t see a real point in making a proper screensaver of any of these. If you think I am wrong, please tell me, otherwise the following two videos will be the only thing available to the general public.
First there is “traffic”:
The software renders randomly colored pixels (in a certain color range) on sprites, cuts out some areas to make it less plain looking and then moves them in from outside the screen (randomly from one of the 4 boundaries).
While the sprites move randomly fast from one side of the screen to the opposite they lose opacity and fade to nothing. Overlapping sprites add up.
The second experiment is similar in some way, although the result is very different:
In this case grey lines are drawn randomly from one side to the other with a certain possibility to change direction slightly. This way no straight lines are drawn. When a line reaches the other side of the screen it reappears on the opposite side.
Every now and then lines change their direction and color completely. In seldom cases it is not a variety of grey, but red. This makes the experiment a bit “more appealing”.
While at first the lines look like some sort of cotton or wool in general, it starts to resemble other materials after a while.
These videos are nice. I like the first one in particular. Did you intend to give “traffic” the impression of depth or did this happen by accident? How many threads are developing at the same time in the second video?
Thanks!
The depth in “traffic” is by accident, though the transparency isn’t.
In “cotton graphite” there can be 10 to 110 threads active at a time. I don’t know how many threads there are in the video, but at least the number does not change after start.
That’s surprising – I thought there were less than ten moving threads. But now that I look closer I can see more as well – ones that have a low contrast against their background. By the way – did you plan “cotton graphite’s” textile look?
I planned the cotton look indeed, though I didn’t know what it would turn into after a few minutes. It then doesn’t look like cotton, but rather like some textured stone from the inside.