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NAME
XaoS - Fast interactive real-time fractal zoomer/morpher
SYNOPSIS
xaos [options]
DESCRIPTION
XaoS is a protable real-time interactive fractal zoomer/morpher. UNIX
version works under X11, SVGA and text terminals. If you don't knwo
what fractal is or you want to know more about XaoS features you
should see animated tutorial. Run XaoS and press 'H' twice. It is
much more fun than reading of boring manual page :) and it supports
foregin languages. You might also read xaos.info file for some
advanced stuff (like how to write animations and tutorials manually,
port or extend XaoS, algorithms used etc.)
OPTIONS
XaoS' options should be divided into following parts:
Ugly interface options
This options are common for all installations of XaoS because
only interface available for now is ugly interface.
Driver selection options
This options lets you choose graphics driver.
Driver depended options
This options depends on available drivers.
SCREEN SIZE OPTIONS
Knowedge of exact screen size needs XaoS to make random dot
stereograms and choosing good view areas for fractal. This should be
done by two ways. Choosing screen size or choosing pixel size. Screen
size is best for fullscreen drivers where resolution(so pixel size)
should be changed. At the other hand pixel size is best for windowed
envireoments where some kind of virtual screen etc should confuse
calculation of pixel size from screen size.
-screenwidth
exact size of screen in centimeters
-screenheight
exact size of screen in centimeters
-pixelwidth
exact size of pixel in centimeters
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-pixelheight
exact size of pixel in centimeters
DRIVER SELECTION OPTIONS
Every xaos installation has some graphics driver. This depends on used
operating system, available libraries and configuration. XaoS by
default tries to enable best available driver. So it for example in
GNU/Linux case it tests drivers in following order:
SVGAlib
X11
curses
Following options are used to control this operation:
-driver
This options lets you specify driver to use and avoid
autodection.
-list
List available drivers and then exit.
OTHER UI OPTIONS
Other options are quite easy to understand and depends on XaoS
configuration and version, so I do not describe them here use xaos
-help for complette list of options with description.
BUGS
There is no known bugs in this release. See xaos home-page at:
http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS for list with solutions. Please
report bugs to xaos@horac.ta.jcu.cz
AUTHORS
Maitainer:
Jan Hubicka (hubicka@paru.cas.cz)
smail:
Jan Hubicka
Dukelskych bojovniku 1944
Tabor
39003
Czech Republic
Thomas Marsh (tmarsh@austion.ibm.com)
See README for full credits
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