boing(6x) XScreenSaver manual boing(6x)
NAME
boing - draws a bouncing ball like the ancient Amiga demo
SYNOPSIS
boing [-display host:display.screen] [-window] [-root] [-install]
[-visual visual] [-delay usecs] [-smooth] [-lighting] [-scanlines]
[-speed] [-no-spin] [-angle degrees] [-size ratio] [-parallels n]
[-meridians n] [-wireframe] [-fps]
DESCRIPTION
The boing program draws a bouncing checkered ball on a grid.
This is a clone of the first graphics demo for the Amiga 1000, which
was written by Dale Luck and RJ Mical during a break at the 1984 Con-
sumer Electronics Show (or so the legend goes.) The boing ball was
briefly the official logo of Amiga Inc., until they were bought by Com-
modore later that year.
With no arguments, this program looks a lot like the original Amiga
demo. With "-smooth -lighting", it looks... less old.
OPTIONS
boing accepts the following options:
-window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
-root Draw on the root window.
-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.
-delay usecs
The delay between frames of the animation, in microseconds: de-
fault 15000.
-smooth Draw a smooth sphere instead of a faceted polyhedron.
-lighting
Do shaded lighting instead of flat colors.
-scanlines
If the window is large enough, draw horizontal lines to simu-
late the scanlines on a low resolution monitor.
-speed ratio
Change the animation speed; 0.5 to go half as fast, 2.0 to go
twice as fast.
-no-spin
Don't rotate the ball.
-angle degrees
The jaunty angle at which the ball sits. Default 15 degrees.
-size ratio
How big the ball is; default 0.5 meaning about half the size of
the window.
-parallels n
-meridians n The pattern of rectangles on the ball. Default
8x16.
-wireframe
Look crummy.
-fps Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count.
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
bsod(6x), pong(6x), xscreensaver(1), X(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2005 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify,
distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any pur-
pose 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 repre-
sentations are made about the suitability of this software for any pur-
pose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
AUTHOR
Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 19-Feb-2005.
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