strange - draws strange attractors
strange [--display host:display.screen]
[--foreground color] [--background color] [--window] [--root]
[--window-id number][--mono] [--install] [--visual visual]
[--ncolors integer] [--delay microseconds]
[--fps]
The strange program draws strange attractors
strange accepts the following options:
- --window
- Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
- --root
- Draw on the root window.
- --window-id number
- Draw on the specified window.
- --mono
- If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display.
- --install
- Install a private colormap for the window.
- --visual
visual
- Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class,
or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
- --ncolors
integer
- How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 100. The colors are
chosen randomly.
- --points
integer
- Change the number of points/iterations each frame. Default 5500. More than
6000 activates the accumulator, which makes parts of the image brighter or
darker depending on how often the attractor hits each pixel.
- --point-size
integer
- Changes the size of individual points. Default 1.
- --zoom
float
- Zooms in or out. Default 0.9.
- --brightness
float
- Adjusts the brightness for accumulator mode. Default 1.0.
- --motion-blur
float
- Adds motion blur. Default 3.0, no motion blur is 1.0.
- --fps
- Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
- DISPLAY
- to get the default host and display number.
- XENVIRONMENT
- to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources
stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
- XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW
- The window ID to use with --root.
Copyright © 1997 by Massimino Pascal.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and
its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both
that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
documentation.
Massimino Pascal <Pascal.Massimon@ens.fr>, 1997.
Ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by
Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 10-May-97.