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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
random 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.
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-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
independantly.
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.
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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 directory.
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
display.
-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.
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-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
iterations.
-max Max Headroom's background (Max not included)
-newton
Newton root fractal. The -number option sets the number of
iterations.
-mixer
Display swirls of colors. The -number option sets the width of
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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
tab(~),center,box; lb | lb l | l. Button Action~Description = Button
1 click~T{ 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. T} _ Button 2 click~Resets the
window and redraws the effect _ Button 3 click~T{ Closes the
window. If it's the last window, exits the program. If the -lock
option is on, this brings up the keyhole window. T}
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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 details. 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 Foundation, 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.
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