NAME¶
flame - draw weird cosmic fractals
SYNOPSIS¶
flame [-display
host:display.screen] [-foreground
color]
[-background
color] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install] [-visual
visual] [-colors
integer] [-iterations
integer] [-points
integer] [-delay
microseconds] [-delay2
microseconds]
[-fps]
DESCRIPTION¶
The
flame program generates colorful fractal displays.
OPTIONS¶
flame accepts the following options:
- -window
- Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
- -root
- Draw on the root 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.
- -colors integer
- How many colors should be used (if possible). Default
64.
- -iterations integer
- How many fractals to generate. Default 25.
- -points integer
- How many pixels to draw for each fractal. Default
10000.
- -delay microseconds
- How long we should wait between drawing each fractal.
Default 50000, or about 1/20th second.
- -delay2 microseconds
- How long we should wait before clearing the screen when
each run ends. Default 2000000, or two seconds.
- -fps
- Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
ENVIRONMENT¶
- 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.
SEE ALSO¶
X(1),
xscreensaver(1),
xlock(1)
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 1991 by Patrick J. Naughton
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.
AUTHOR¶
Scott Graves <spot@cs.cmu.edu>, 06-Jun-91.n
Ability to run standalone or with
xscreensaver added by Jamie Zawinski
<jwz@jwz.org>, 18-Oct-93.