jigglypuff(6) XScreenSaver manual jigglypuff(6) NAME jigglypuff - save your screen by tormenting your eyes. SYNOPSIS jigglypuff [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number] [-delay number] [-cycles number] [-wireframe] [-fps] [-color colorspec] [-spooky] [-complexity n] [-speed n] [-spherism n] [-hold n] [-distance n] [-damping n] DESCRIPTION This draws all manners of obscene, spastic, puffy, vaguely ball-shaped ob- jects orbiting lazily about the screen, with a dizzying array of mostly pointless options. OPTIONS --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. --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. --delay number Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (0.02 seconds.). --wireframe Render in wireframe instead of solid. Default: render solid. --fps Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count. -tetra | -no-tetra Whether to start the shape in the form of a tetrahedron. The de- fault is to start as a sphere. -color colorspec Available options for colorspec are: cycle, flowerbox, clownpuke, chrome and #xxxxxx (i.e an (old-style) X color specification.) De- fault: cycle -spooky n This option controls a kind of interesting effect obtained by using unnormalized normal vectors (how's that for an oxymoron?) in OpenGL. A value of zero disables the effect. Other values vary the lengths of the normals proportionally. Okay, so it's not very spooky. Sue me. Default: 0 -complexity n Valid options are 1, 2, and 3. Everything else is treated as though it were 2, which is the default. This controls the number of poly- gons in the 'thing'. A value of 1 yields 1024, and the values go up in powers of 4. (i.e. 4096, 16384.) note: There is an inherent lack of stability at lower complexity, which can cause the shape to devolve into a 'flying snotrag'. -speed n Controls how fast the blob moves around the screen. Default: 500. -spherism, -hold, -distance, -damping These options control the 'jigglyness'. The best way to explain these is to explain how jigglypuff works. Basically, the shape is a tetrahedron whose faces are subdivided into a number of triangles, forming a mesh. Each of the vertices of the mesh has two different forces applied to it: one proportional to its distance from the surface of a sphere, and one proportional to the difference of the distance to each of its neighbors in the mesh to a given ideal dis- tance. In short, one tries to move the points into the configura- tion of a sphere, and the other tries to push them back into a tetrahedron. The catch is that the points have inertia, so they al- ways overshoot their target, and hence they oscillate. The magni- tudes of the two forces is controlled by the options 'spherism' and 'hold'; 'distance' specifies the distance the vertices seek to keep from their neighbors, with 500 corresponding to the size of the start tetrahedron. e.g. if you were to give the options '-tetra -spherism 0 -distance 500', you would end up with a stable tetrahe- dron. The 'damping' option can help to keep the blob from collaps- ing or flying apart. The option specifies the speed at which damp- ing starts, hence lower values mean more damping. Defaults: spherism: 75; hold: 800; distance: 100; damping: 500. -random Probably the only parameter you'l ever need. Overrides almost all of the parameters with random values. The values affected are: speed, spherism, hold, distance, damping, spooky, color, wireframe and tetra. Default: off ENVIRONMENT DISPLAY to get the default host and display number. XENVIRONMENT to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global re- sources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW The window ID to use with --root. SEE ALSO X(1), xscreensaver(1) COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2003 by Keith Macleod. Permission to use, copy, modify, dis- tribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission no- tice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. AUTHOR By Keith Macleod X Version 11 6.15 (30-Mar-2026) jigglypuff(6)
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