quasicrystal - aperiodic plane tilings.
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Copyright
Copyright © 2013 by Jamie Zawinski. 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
A quasicrystal is a structure that is ordered but aperiodic. Two-dimensional quasicrystals can be
generated by adding a set of planes where x is the sine of y. Different complex aperiodic plane tilings
are produced depending on the period, position, and rotation of the component planes, and whether the
rotation of the planes is evenly distributed around the circle (the "symmetric" option, above) or random.
See also the "RD-Bomb", "CWaves" and "Penrose" screen savers.
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
quasicrystal - aperiodic plane tilings.
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.
--delaynumber
Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 30000 (0.03 seconds.).
--speednumber
Animation speed. 2 for twice as fast, 0.5 for half as fast.
--contrastcontrast
Contrast. Sort of. Default 30%.
--countnumber
How many planes to use. Default 17.
--wander|--no-wander
Whether the planes should displace horizontally and vertically.
--spin|--no-spin
Whether the planes should rotate.
--asymmetric
Allow each plane to rotate freely instead of being constrained to an even distribution around the
circle.
--fps|--no-fps
Whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen.
See Also
X(1), xscreensaver(1)
Synopsis
quasicrystal [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number]
[--delay number] [--speed number] [--count number] [--contrast percent] [--no-wander] [--no-spin]
[--asymmetric] [--fps]
