pulsar

Section: XScreenSaver manual (6)
Updated: 5.40 (12-Aug-2018)
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NAME

pulsar - intersecting planes, alpha blending, fog, and textures.  

SYNOPSIS

pulsar [-display host:display.screen] [-visual visual] [-window] [-root] [-no-light] [-wire] [-delay number] [-quads number] [-image file] [-light] [-fog] [-texture] [-mipmap] [-no-blend] [-antialias] [-texture_quality] [-do_depth] [-fps]  

DESCRIPTION

Draws some intersecting planes, making use of alpha blending, fog, textures, and mipmaps, plus a ``frames per second'' meter so that you can tell how fast your graphics card is... Requires OpenGL.  

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.
-light | -no-light
Use Flat Coloring.
-wire
Render in wireframe instead of solid.
-delay number
Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 10000 (0.01 seconds.).
-image file
The texture map to use.
-quads number
Quad Count. 1 - 50. Default: 5.
-light | -no-light
Whether to enable lighting.
-fog | -no-fog
Whether to enable fog.
-texture | -no-texture
Whether to enable texturing.
-mipmap | -no-mipmap
Whether to enable texture mipmaps.
-blend | -no-blend
Whether to enable blending.
-antialias | -no-antialias
Whether to anti-alias lines.
-texture_quality | -no-texture_quality
Whether to enable texture filtering.
-do_depth | -no-do_depth
Whether to enable depth buffer.
-fps
Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count.
 

ENVIRONMENT

DISPLAY
to get the default host and display number.
XENVIRONMENT
to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
 

SEE ALSO

X(1), xscreensaver(1)  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2002 by David Konerding. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, 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 notice 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

David Konerding.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
SEE ALSO
COPYRIGHT
AUTHOR