hydrostat
Section: XScreenSaver manual (6x)
Updated: 6.00-1.fc34 (02-Apr-2021)
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NAME
hydrostat - Wiggly squid or jellyfish with many tentacles.
SYNOPSIS
hydrostat
[-display
host:display.screen]
[-visual
visual]
[-window]
[-root]
[-delay
number]
[-speed
number]
[-count
number]
[-head-radius
number]
[-tentacles
number]
[-thickness
number]
[-length
number]
[-gravity
number]
[-current
number]
[-friction
number]
[-no-pulse]
[-wireframe]
[-fps]
DESCRIPTION
Wiggly squid or jellyfish with many tentacles. A muscular hydrostat
is a biological structure used to move its host about, consisting of
muscles with no skeletal support. It performs its hydraulic movement
without fluid in a separate compartment, as in a hydrostatic
skeleton.
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.
- -delay number
-
Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (0.02 seconds).
- -speed number
-
Animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as fast.
- -count number
-
Number of squid. 1 - 100. Default: 10.
- -head-radius number
-
Head size. 10 - 100. Default: 60.
- -tentacles number
-
Number of tentacles. 3 - 100. Default: 40.
- -thickness number
-
Thickness of tentacles. 3 - 40. Default: 18.
- -length number
-
Length of tentacles. 10 - 150. Default: 70.
- -gravity number
-
Strength of gravity. 0 - 10.0. Default: 0.5.
- -current number
-
Strength of current. 0.0 - 10.0. Default: 0.25.
- -friction number
-
Coefficient of friction. 0.0 - 0.1. Default: 0.02.
- -pulse | -no-pulse
-
Whether the squid should pulse. Default true.
- -wireframe | -no-wireframe
-
Render in wireframe instead of solid.
- -fps | -no-fps
-
Whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen.
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)
http://soulwire.co.uk/experiments/muscular-hydrostats/
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2016 by Justin Windle and Jamie Zawinski. 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
Justin Windle and Jamie Zawinski.