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xantfarm(1)							   xantfarm(1)

NAME
       xantfarm - displays a simulated ant hill in the root window

SYNOPSIS
       xantfarm [-num num] [-c cycles] [-id] [checkpointfile]

DESCRIPTION
       Xantfarm simulates an ant hill and displays it in the root window.

       There  are  three Elements in the ant world: Air, Dirt, and Sand.  Ants
       move through Air, dig up Dirt, and drop it as Sand.   Ants  have	 three
       Behaviors:  Wandering,  Carrying,  and  Panic.	There are a few simple
       probabilities built in to the  program  that  control  the  transitions
       between Wandering and Carrying.	To see them Panic, try poking the ants
       with the cursor.

OPTIONS
       -num   Specifies how many ants to simulate.  The default is 10.

       -c     Specifies how often the simulation runs, in cycles  per  second.
	      The  default is 15.  If you specify 0, it runs continuously (and
	      you should probably nice the xantfarm process, or your  interac‐
	      tive response will suffer).

       -id    Forks  a background process and prints the process-id to stdout.
	      Useful if you want to make a menu command to kill xantfarm.

       You can also specify a  checkpointfile,	to  restore  an	 antfarm  from
       and/or  periodically  save  the	antfarm to.  The format of the file is
       very simple, and antfarms can easily be modified	 using	your  favorite
       text editor.

       Xantfarm accepts all the usual X flags and resources, plus:

       -air / airColor: The color of Air.

       -sand / sandColor: The color of Sand.

       -ant / antColor: The color of the ants.

       There's no flag for controlling the color of Dirt because Dirt shows as
       the default background pixmap.

BUGS / DEFICIENCIES
       It might be nice to be able to adjust the probabilities and stuff  with
       flags.

       The checkpointing code could be more robust.

SEE ALSO
       xsetroot(1)

AUTHOR
       Copyright  (C)  1991  by	 Jef  Poskanzer	 <jef@acme.com>.   All	rights
       reserved.

				16 October 1991			   xantfarm(1)

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