X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fconfig%2Fmoire.xml;h=6e4c9b9d2b0893625c264f72135654fdeae5ba3b;hb=c1b9b55ad8d59dc05ef55e316aebf5863e7dfa56;hp=5421563de9dd79d4be40ebc9e66efdad41a48742;hpb=8eb2873d7054e705c4e83f22d18c40946a9e2529;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/hacks/config/moire.xml b/hacks/config/moire.xml index 5421563d..6e4c9b9d 100644 --- a/hacks/config/moire.xml +++ b/hacks/config/moire.xml @@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ - - + + + <_description> -This one draws cool circular interference patterns. Most of the -circles you see aren't explicitly rendered, but show up as a result -of interactions between the other pixels that were drawn. Written by -Jamie Zawinski, inspired by Java code by Michael Bayne. As he -pointed out, the beauty of this one is that the heart of the display -algorithm can be expressed with just a pair of loops and a handful of -arithmetic, giving it a high ``display hack metric''. + When the lines on the screen + Make more lines in between, + That's a moire'! + +http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moire_pattern + +Written by Jamie Zawinski and Michael Bayne; 1997.