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1. XTACY(1) General Commands Manual XTACY(1) NAME xtacy - an X11 trippy color-cycling toy SYNOPSIS xtacy [ -option ... ] DESCRIPTION xtacy generates trippy patterns in an X window and cycles the color palette. Without any arguments, xtacy will open a window and display a ran- dom effect. OPTIONS -annoy Turn on the Zoomy Close Window thing. -bw width Border Width. Specifies the width of the border around your window, in pixels. -delay msec Delay msec microseconds between loops. -display displayname Opens the xtacy window on the displayname display. -geometry geom Opens the xtacy window with geom geometry. -h Print out a help message. -lock Lock the window. When given the -lock flag, xtacy prompts you for a key, then locks the window until the key is entered again. There is no true security guaranteed by this option. -mirror Mirrors the pattern on the window -norect Used in conjunction with -kaleid to turn off everything but the lines. -number num Used in conjunction with different effect options to specify special qualities of the effect. See the effect options below. -opt num Also used like -number to feed a secondary option into xtacy -part num Used in conjunction with -gravity to specify the number of roaming particles. -r -root Run xtacy in the root window. -rillybig Run xtacy in a really big window (1024x860). -trell Used in conjunction with -plasma to put it in Trellace mode. -windows n Tell xtacy to open n windows for itself. COLOR OPTIONS -bd color Set the border color of the xtacy window to color. -bg color Set the background color of the xtacy window to color. -mono Run with a greyscale palette. -multi Rotates the color map on most effect modes. -few Use only 18 colors. -several Use 72 colors. -colors num Try to use num colors. -rand -randomcolor Scramble the colormap. -perfect Use a private colormap. This will let xtacy have perfect colors when the cursor is in that window, but will do funky things to the rest of the screen. -pal num|filename Uses predefined palette num: 0: Default RYGCBM, rotating straight. 1: Three bands (red, green, and blue), each of which can rotate in- dependantly. 2: Like palette 1 but in greyscale. 3: Chooses 2 random colors and interpolates between them. 4: Starts with a greyscale palette, drops in a random color and smoothes around it. 5: Chooses 3 random colors and interpolates between them. you can also specify a Palette File, which is just a text file with R-G-B triples ranging from 0 to 255. A few demonstration palette files are included in the Xtacy distribution, in the palette direc- tory. EFFECT OPTIONS -bez Bouncing Bezier curves. The -number option specifies how many curves to display. -boxes Bouncing boxes. The -number option specifies how many boxes to dis- play. -bozo Bouncing quadrilaterals (bozogons). The -number option specifies how many bozos to display. -circ Bouncing circles. The -number option specifies how many circles to display. -qix Qix. The -number option specifies how many qix lines to display. -qix4 Four qix lines, mirrored on each other. The -number option specifies how many qix lines to display. -blur starts with randomly placed boxes, and then blurs the edges between them. -cells Tile floor, cells of rotating color. The -number option specifies how many cells on a row. -clover Lines rotating around a center point. -cube A spinning wire-frame cube. You may want to push up the delay to slow this down on a fast system. -dcurve plots the colors based on the distance to the curve(s) -dline plots colors based on the distance to the line(s) -dog DogPlasma mode. The -number option sets the graininess. -field Displays e-fields between random points of random intensity. The -number option specifies how many points to display. -flush starts with randomly drawn boxes, and moves them towards the center of the window -fracrect ever decreasing squares-within-squares -funky Shapes spiraling down to the center point. The -number option sets the shape: 0: A straight line. 1: A square. 2: A triangle. -gravity Gravity well simulator. The -part option sets the number of roaming particles and the -number option sets the number of wells. -julia Julia set fractal. The -number option sets the number of iterations. -kaleid Kaleidascope. The -norect option turns off everything but the lines. -life Conway's game of life. The -number option sets the starting density. -lunch A reminder to go eat in the middle of the day -mandel Mandelbrot set fractal. The -number option sets the number of itera- tions. -max Max Headroom's background (Max not included) -newton Newton root fractal. The -number option sets the number of itera- tions. -mixer Display swirls of colors. The -number option sets the width of the bands. -off Off the Air color test pattern. -plasma Plasma cloud. The -number option sets the graininess of the cloud (higher is smoother) and the -trell option puts it in Trellace mode, which started as a bug but looked neat enough to stay. -rose Phased sine waves -spiral Draw a spiral. -star Starfield simulation. The -number option determines the number of stars on the screen at a time. -static Draw static. Use -mono to get black and white static. -swarm Draw a swarm of bees following a queen. -taffy A modified mixer mode. The -number option sets the width of the bands. -tag sort of the reverse of -swarm everyone avoids the leader, and the leader tries to tag the closest bee -test Display the colormap. -tunnel Display a tunnel. -wander Display a squiggly line, wandering around the screen. MOUSE BUTTONS +----------------+---------------------------------------------+ | Button Action | Description | +----------------+---------------------------------------------+ | Button 1 click | Rotates the colormap one pixel, except on: | | | -gravity, where it places a new particle, | | | -wander, where it moves the pixel, and | | | -swarm, where it moves the queen. | +----------------+---------------------------------------------+ | Button 2 click | Resets the window and redraws the effect | +----------------+---------------------------------------------+ | Button 3 click | Closes the window. If it's the last window, | | | exits the program. If the -lock option is | | | on, this brings up the keyhole window. | +----------------+---------------------------------------------+ AUTHOR Jer Johnson <jer@gweep.net> ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This program is dedicated to The Fairest One. Special Thanks to: Daniel Cabeza Gras <bardo@clip.dia.fi.upm.es> for tweaking my spiral code, and for adding the cells and mixer modes. Steve Richardson <prefect@gweep.net> for letting me use his computer as an FTP site, and for being a guinea pig. Oh, and for writing the taffy mode. Andrew Petrarca <android@gweep.net> for tweaking my gravity and e-fields code. Matt Cross <profesor@gweep.net> for the starback and tunnel code. Raun Nohavitza <raunn@tamu.edu> for writing the manpage. COPYRIGHT xtacy is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. xtacy is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more de- tails. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with xtacy; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foun- dation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. AVAILABILITY The most recent released version of xtacy is always available for anonymous ftp from sidehack.gweep.net in the directory pub/gweep_progs. Xtacy Version 1.14 15 December 1998 XTACY(1)
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