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 BUGSX(1)                                                           BUGSX(1)
                                     X11



 NAME
      bugsx - display and evolve biomorphs

 DESCRIPTION
      bugsx runs under MIT's X11 window system. It was written under UNIX
      but should be easily portable.  It is a program which draws the
      biomorphs based on parametric plots of Fourier sine and cosine series
      and let's you play with them using the genetic algorithm.

      The original version which ran under Suntools and XViews was written
      by Joshua R. Smith sometime 1990. See the 'credits' section for more
      details.

      For more information about the theoretic backgrounds of bugsx consult
      Joshua R. Smith's paper distributed with this program (in postscript
      format). It can also be gotten from:
      http://physics.www.media.mit.edu/~jrs/biomorphs.ps

 COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS
      bugsx accepts the following command line options:

              +rv                     reverse video (use to override xrdb entry)
              +synchronous            syncronous mode (use to override xrdb entry)
              -?                      help
              -background <arg>       backgound color
              -batch                  run program in batch mode
              -bg <arg>               same as -background
              -bordercolor <arg>      border color
              -borderwidth <arg>      border width
              -display                display
              -extend_print           show extended reproduction info while running
              -fg <arg>               same as -forground
              -font <arg>             font
              -foreground <arg>       forground color (also file system bar color)
              -geometry <arg>         geometry (will override extreme window sizes to
                                      apply reasonable settings)
              -help                   help
              -iconic                 iconic
              -interval <arg>         interval used per turn
              -mb                     show menu border
              -name <arg>             run bugsx under this name
              -nobreed                do not breed when running in bactch mode
              -number <arg>           number of biomorphs to draw (must be a square #)
              -printpop               print the population when breeding
              -rv                     reverse video
              -seed <arg>             use this seed for random number generator
              -segments <arg>         use this many segments to draw an organism
              -showbreed              show breeding subpopulation when in batch mode
           -showgenes          show a graphic representation of the genes
              -synchronous            synchronous mode
              -v                      verbose



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 BUGSX(1)                                                           BUGSX(1)
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              -xrm                    make no entry in resrouce database
              help                    help



 RESOURCES
      bugsx can be controlled via the following resources:

              background              universal backgound color
              batch                   run program in batch mode
              batchbreed              do not breed when running in bactch mode
              borderColor             border color
              borderWidth             border width
              display                 display
              extend_print            show extended reproduction info while running
              font                    font
              foreground              universal foreground color
              help                    show help
              mainWin.geometry        main window geometry
              iconic                  start program in iconic mode
              interval                interval used per turn
              minimize                minimize window size
              menuborder              draw menu borders
              name                    run bugsxunder this name
              number                  number of biomorphs to draw (must be a square #)
              printpop                print the population when breeding
              reverseVideo            reverse video
              seed                    use this seed for random number generator
              segments                use this many segments to draw an organism
              showbreed               show breeding subpopulation when in batch mode
           showgenes      show a graphic representation of the genes
              synchronous             syncronous mode
              verbose                 verbose mode


 BRIEF USER'S GUIDE
      Once you have started bugsx you will get a window containing the
      drawing windows and 3 menus. The Menus are:

           Initialize - Initializes the gene pool
           Breed        - Breed the selected organisms
           Quit       - exits bugsx

      Once you have chosen "Initialize" and the first set of drawings is
      shown, you can select the ones you wish to be included in the cross-
      breeding by clicking (with the left button) on a drawing window. The
      selected organisms will be drawn inverse.

      Clicking on Breed will cross breed the selected organisms using the
      genetic algorithm. If you have not selected at least two organisms, a
      set of at least two will be randomly chosen and used for the breeding.



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 BUGSX(1)                                                           BUGSX(1)
                                     X11



      The following keys can be used to control bugsx:

           q - quit bugsx
           i - initialize population
           b - breed

 AUTHOR
      bugsx was written by Joshua R. Smith (jrs@media.mit.edu) and ported to
      XWindows by Robert Gasch (Robert_Gasch@peoplesoft.com) and is
      copyright by the author(s).

 CREDITS
      The strstr() used for DYNIX ports is a slightly modified version of
      the GNU source.








































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