xscreensaver(1)
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 microsec_ onds]
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 frac
tal. 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 sec
onds.
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_MAN
AGER property.
SEE ALSO
X(1), xscreensaver(1), xlock(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 1991 by Patrick J. Naughton
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this soft
ware 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.