xglurbules(1)xglurbules(1)NAMExglurbules - Heavily graphical particle system eye candy program thingy
for X11
SYNOPSISxglurbules | xglurbules-noshm [ options ... ]
DESCRIPTION
A sort of gooey looking graphical particle system eyecandy thingamagic
program for X11.
USAGE
Keyboard controls are explained on screen (in the terminal you run it
from)
Command Line Switches for both xglurbules and xglurbules-noshm :
-h Show help (in the likely event that this manpage is out of date)
-l <num>
Only show <num> frames (before quitting)
-n <num>
set number of particles to <num>
-x <xres>
set x resolution
-y <yres>
set y resolution
-r
run in root window
-R
use alternative renderer if possible
-m
randomly change force modes
-b <0-255>
Set particle brightness
-f
Show frames per second
-c <color>
Run with a colormap based on a given color
e.g. -c 0xffaa66 for shades of orange
-c 0xaaccff for shades of something?!
EXAMPLESxglurbules-x 640 -y 512 -n 20000 -f -c 0xfce3f6
Run xglurbules 640 pixels wide, 512 pixels high with 20000 particles
while showing the number of frames per second, all in a sort of vile
barney purple type colour.
xglurbules-x 800 -y 50 -n 1000
A narrow horizontal burny bouncy thing
xglurbules-x 128 -y 1024 -n 2000
Column of bouncy fire
xglurbule-noshm
Don't use shared memory (probably MUCH slower)
pkg_deinstall xglurbules
I don't like it, deinstall it now!
SEE ALSO
Lots of other things not on your computer screen.
http://www.pepcross.com/ (has screenshots and possibly updates)
BUGS
Many, including :
1) At non-square aspect ratios particles move oddly due to a particle
system that's kludged on a 1 by 1 floating point square.
2) There's no non-floating point particle system
3) no support for -geometry
4) There is no fourth bug.
5) -r uses the top left corner of the root window. D'Oh!
6) -r doens't take keystrokes in the root window
7..N) Not sure, but they're probably there.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1995-2002 Steve Roome [steve@pepcross.com]
This code is copyright, you may not use it for anything other than its
intended purpose as part of xglurbules which displays a graphical rep‐
resentation of a partical system. You may not use portions of this code
for other projects without prior permission from the author (Stephen
Roome). If you so much as ... blah blah blah.. it's not that good so
don't rip it off please or if you do then please ask first. Basically
as the guy in the advert said:
This code is not ready yet!
This is all in development and will be revised when I get time.
FEEDBACK
Any questions, comments, requests, job offers, spare banknotes etc. to
steve@pepcross.com
30 Aug 2002 xglurbules(1)
