Dvd screensaver

Many people seem to experience great satisfaction watching their DVD player screensaver on their TV, looking forward to the moment when the logo hits a corner perfectly. I don’t judge, because it’s actually fascinating, from a mathematical point of view. It was mentioned in a cold opening from The Office, and is still a great pastime when you’re under the influence. The math behind the greatest mystery of all time We’ll make a few reasonable assumptions: • The TV screen is a W by H rectangle, the DVD logo is a w by h rectangle, with • The DVD logo moves with a perfectly diagonal constant speed (same absolute speed on both axes). • It bounces off the edges of the screen perfectly. • Sometimes the DVD logo image and its collision rectangle aren’t perfectly aligned, but this is irrelevant to our discussion, just choose the appropriate collision shapes in your calculations. Now we can start our investigations. I leave the demonstration to the reader (simple high-school level(?) math, modular arithmetic, least common multiple and greatest common divisor, and using Bézout’s identity to solve a simple Diophantine equation). x and y are the coordinates of the starting position. w and h are the dimensions of the logo. W and H are the dimensions of the screen. We discover the following fascinating properties: When you hit a corner, you will hit a different corner before hitting the same one again, etc. You can never hit 1, 3 or 4 corners, always 2 or 0. It’s a loop, at some point it...

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