XaoS(6) Demos XaoS(6)NAMExaos - Fast interactive real-time fractal zoomer/morpher
SYNOPSISxaos [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
XaoS is a fast portable real-time interactive fractal zoomer. It dis‐
plays the Mandelbrot set (among other escape time fractals) and allows
you to zoom smoothly into the fractal. Various coloring modes are pro‐
vided for both the points inside and outside the selected set. In addi‐
tion, switching between Julia and Mandelbrot fractal types and display‐
ing planes is provided. The first version was a poorly written Mandel‐
brot viewer by Thomas later modified by Jan to support high frame-rate
zooming. Other additions were later made including autopilot (for those
of you without driver licenses), palette changing, PNG saving, and
fractal inversion.
OPTIONS-delay number
Delay screen updates (milliseconds)
-driver string
Select driver
-list List available drivers. Then exit
-config Print configuration. Then exit
-speedtest Test speed of calculation loop. Then exit
-threads number
Set number of threads (CPUs) to use
-pipe string
Accept commands from pipe (use "-" for stdin)
-maxframerate number
Maximal framerate (0 for unlimited - default)
Screen size options:
Knowledge of exact screen size makes random dot stereogram look bet‐
ter.
Also is used for choosing correct view area
-screenwidth f.point
exact size of screen in centimeters
-screenheight f.point
exact size of screen in centimeters
Use this option in case you use some kind of virtual screen
or something similiar that confuses previous options
-pixelwidth f.point
exact size of one pixel in centimeters
-pixelheight f.point
exact size of one pixel in centimeters
Animation rendering:
-render string
Render animation into seqence of .png files
-basename string
Name for .png files (XaoS will add 4 digit number and
extension
-size string
widthxheight
-renderimage string
256 or truecolor
-renderframerate f.point
framerate
-antialiasing Perform antialiasing (slow, requires quite lot of
memory)
-alwaysrecalc Always recalculate whole image (slowes down render‐
ing, increases quality)
-rendervectors Render motion vectors (should be used for MPEG encod‐
ing)
-iframedist number
Recommended distance between I frames in pat file
(should be used for MPEG encoding)
X11 driver options:
-display string
Select display
-size string
Select size of window (WIDTHxHEIGHT).
-sync Generate sync signals before looking for events. This
helps on old and buggy HP-UX X servers.
-shared Use shared colormap on pseudocolor display.
-usedefault Use default visual if autodetection causes troubles.
-nomitshm Disable MITSHM extension.
-fullscreen Enable fullscreen mode.
-windowid number
Use selected window.
-window-id number
Use selected window.
-root Use root window.
Command line options only
-print_menus print menus specifications of all menus
-print_menu string
print menu specification
-xshl_print_menustring
print menu specification in xshl format
-xshl_print_menus print all menu specifications in xshl format
-print_dialog string
print dialog specification
File
-loadpos input_file
Load
-savepos output_file
Save
-record output_file
Record
-play input_file
Replay
-saveimg output_file
Save image
-loadexample Load random example
-savecfg Save configuration
Fractal
-perturbation real_number real_number
Perturbation
-initstate Reset to defaults
-julia on|off
Julia mode
-view real_number real_number real_number real_number
View
-angle real_number
Set angle
-plane integer
Set plane
-incoloring integer
Inside coloring mode
-outcoloring integer
Outside coloring mode
-intcoloring integer
Inside truecolor coloring mode
-outtcoloring integer
Outside truecolor coloring mode
-juliaseed real_number real_number
Julia seed
Calculation
-periodicity Periodicity checking
-maxiter integer
Iterations
-bailout real_number
Bailout
-fastjulia Fast julia mode
-range integer
Solid guessing range
Filters
-edge Edge detection
-edge2 Edge detection2
-threed Pseudo 3d
-starfield Starfield
-stereogram Random dot stereogram
-interlace Interlace filter
-blur Motionblur
-emboss Emboss
-palettef Palette emulator
-anti Antialiasing
-truecolor Truecolor emulator
UI
-letterspersec integer
Letters per second
-autopilot Autopilot
-inhibittextoutput VJ mode
-recalculate Recalculate
-interrupt Interrupt
-speed real_number
Zooming speed
-fixedstep Fixed step
-nogui Disable XaoS's builtin GUI
-status Status
-ministatus Ministatus
Misc
-playstr string
Play string
-text string
Display text
-color white|black|red
Color
-textposition left|center|right top|middle|bottom
Text position
-message string
Message
Help
-help Help
Formulae
-mandel Mandelbrot
-mandel3 Mandelbrot^3
-mandel4 Mandelbrot^4
-mandel5 Mandelbrot^5
-mandel6 Mandelbrot^6
-newton Newton
-newton4 Newton^4
-barnsley Barnsley1
-barnsley2 Barnsley2
-barnsley3 Barnsley3
-octal Octal
-phoenix Phoenix
-magnet Magnet
-magnet2 Magnet2
More formulae
-trice Triceratops
-catseye Catseye
-mbar Mandelbar
-mlambda Lambda
-manowar Manowar
-spider Spider
-sier Sierpinski
-carpet S.Carpet
-koch Koch Snowflake
-hornflake Spidron hornflake
Palette
-defpalette Default palette
-randompalette Random palette
-palette integer integer integer
Custom palette
-cycling Color cycling
-cyclingspeed integer
Color cycling speed
-shiftpalette integer
Shift palette
Dynamic resolution
-fastmode zero|never|animation|new|allways
Dynamic resolution mode
Rotation
-rotationspeed real_number
Rotation speed
-autorotate on|off
Automatic rotation
-fastrotate on|off
Fast rotation mode
Quit
-quit Exit now
DETAILS
This manual page is obsolete and no longer maintained. Please read the
full documentation running XaoS. You can start it typing 'xaos'. (Press
'h' 3 times to get into the help system.)
In addition, xaos--help should give a detailed list about the command
line options.
XaoS 16 Oct 2010 XaoS(6)
