pulsar - intersecting planes, alpha blending, fog, and textures.
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Copyright
Copyright © 2002 by David Konerding. 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.
Description
Draws some intersecting planes, making use of alpha blending, fog, textures, and mipmaps, plus a ``frames
per second'' meter so that you can tell how fast your graphics card is... Requires OpenGL.
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.
XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW
The window ID to use with --root.
Name
pulsar - intersecting planes, alpha blending, fog, and textures.
Options
--visualvisual
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.
--window-idnumber
Draw on the specified window.
--light|--no-light
Use Flat Coloring.
--wire Render in wireframe instead of solid.
--delaynumber
Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 10000 (0.01 seconds.).
--imagefile
The texture map to use.
--quadsnumber
Quad Count. 1 - 50. Default: 5.
--light|--no-light
Whether to enable lighting.
--fog|--no-fog
Whether to enable fog.
--texture|--no-texture
Whether to enable texturing.
--mipmap|--no-mipmap
Whether to enable texture mipmaps.
--blend|--no-blend
Whether to enable blending.
--antialias|--no-antialias
Whether to anti-alias lines.
--texture_quality|--no-texture_quality
Whether to enable texture filtering.
--do_depth|--no-do_depth
Whether to enable depth buffer.
--fps Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count.
See Also
X(1), xscreensaver(1)
Synopsis
pulsar [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number] [--no-
light] [--wire] [--delay number] [--quads number] [--image file] [--light] [--fog] [--texture] [--mipmap]
[--no-blend] [--antialias] [--texture_quality] [--do_depth] [--fps]
