amoeba - Fast-paced, polished OpenGL demonstration by Excess

Author

       Amoeba   was   made   by  the  group  Excess.  This  manual  page  was  made  by  Steinar  H.   Gunderson
       <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> (aka Sesse/Excess) for the Debian GNU/Linux project (but may be used by others).

       Individual credits:

       gloom<bent@gathering.org>
              design, music, graphics

       Sesse<sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
              code

       neuromancer<neuromancerskulls@poczta.onet.pl>
              graphics

       kusma<eflund@online.no>
              graphics, code

       Tick<tick@psychoproject.net>
              3D modelling

       Satcom101<mattias@satcom101.com>
              music

                                                                                                       AMOEBA(1)

Description

amoeba is a fast-paced, cross-platform OpenGL demonstration by Excess, showing effects using your 3D card
       in  perfect sync with Ogg Vorbis music. It features a full XML-scripted GPLed demo engine, several object
       manipulations, lots of graphics and a pumping soundtrack by Satcom101.

       Amoeba won first price in the demo competition at Underscore 02, a sceneparty held in  Jönköping,  Sweden
       (http://www.underscore.sh/)

Name

       amoeba - Fast-paced, polished OpenGL demonstration by Excess

Options

If you start amoeba without any command line options, it will try to launch a GTK+-based configuration
interface, if GTK+ is installed on your system. If not, it will start using default parameters (640x480,
32bpp, fullscreen with sound).

All options start with a single dash (`-'). A summary of options are included below. Note that if
conflicting options are specified, the last one will take precedence.

-fullscreen
Run in full screen (default).

-windowed
Run in a window. Note that resizing the problem may cause problems, and is not fully supported.

-640x480,-800x600,-1024x768,-1280x960,-1280x1024,-1400x1050,-1600x1200
Run in the specified resolution (if using full-screen mode), or open a window of the specified
size (if using windowed mode). The default is 640x480.

-16,-32
Run in the specified bit depth. 32bpp looks better and is usually faster on modern cards, but not
all cards can handle 16bpp. Note that 16bpp may cause problems on many cards that do not support
stencil visuals with 16bpp. The default is 32bpp.

-z16,-z24,-z32
Run with a Z-buffer of the specified bit depth. Higher bit depths usually results in slightly
better quality, but many cards only support 16bpp, and there might be a performance penalty. The
default is 16bpp.

-nosound
Do not play sound. The default is to play sound, unless no sound card can be detected.