Reactive Graphic 1 (ca 1992)

I designed this to run on a Color Classic. It was meant to be a way to "program" the screen as if it were only one big pixel. You could set how the computer would react to different levels of moving the mouse. And based on that motion, a different color would "fire" (i.e. fill the whole screen). When you moved the mouse and the entire screen changed, it was a bit scary -- and also a bit awesome. At the time, in the subway systems of Tokyo there were huge ads for "The Lion King" -- so I was influenced by "claw-like" grafitti which made it onto the right side of the screen somehow. What you see really changes what you make.

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