XScreenSaver(1)XScreenSaver(1)NAMExspirograph - simulates the rotation of a disk inside a
circular rim
SYNOPSISxspirograph [-display host:display.screen] [-window]
[-root] [-install] [-visual visual] [-delay seconds]
[-subdelay useconds] [-layers integer] [-alwaysfinish]
[-noalwaysfinish]
DESCRIPTIONxspirograph draws patterns such as those made by a spiro
graph, that is, the curve traced by a point on a circular
disk rotating on the inside of a hollow circular rim.
OPTIONSxspirograph accepts the following options:
-window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the
default.
-root Draw on the root window.
-install
Install a private colormap for the window.
-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.
-delay secs
The delay between finishing one draw and starting
the next. Default: 5 seconds.
-subdelay usec
The time to delay between each hundred line draws.
Use this if you want to see the pattern form.
Default: 0.
-alwaysfinish -noalwaysfinish
If you want each pattern to draw until it is done,
specify the first. Otherwise, they will stop
after a set number of iterations. Default: no.
-layers integer
Number of pairs of patterns to draw between each
erase.
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_MAN
AGER property.
SEE ALSOX(1), xscreensaver(1)COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2000 by Rohit Singh <rohit_singh@hotmail.com>
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 pro
vided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
Modified by Matthew Strait <straitm@mathcs.carleton.edu>
Dec 2001.
X Version 11 9-Dec-2001 XScreenSaver(1)
