flame(6x) XScreenSaver manual flame(6x)
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, pro-
vided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in sup-
porting 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.
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