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rocks - animation of flying through an asteroid field
rocks [-display host:display.screen] [-foreground color] [-background color] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-ncolors n] [-install] [-visual visual] [-count integer] [-delay usecs] [-speed integer] [-norotate] [-nomove] [-3d] [-fps]
The rocks program draws an animation of an asteroid field moving past the observer (or vice versa). Sometimes the observer picks up spin on Z axis.
rocks accepts the following options:
There should be an option to display doppler shift (a gravity rainbow.)
Speed of rotation should be settable.
Default speed of rotation should be relative to forward velocity.
Copyright © 1992 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
Based on Lisp Machine code copyright 1988 John Nguyen <johnn@hx.lcs.mit.edu>.
Ported to C and X by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 13-aug-92.
Steering code by Jeremie Petit; 3D code by theiling@coli.uni-sb.de.
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