starfish1

Usage

Overview

The starfish program draws radially symmetric objects, which expand, contract, rotate, and turn inside out. It uses these shapes to lay down a field of smooth colors, and then rotates the colormap.

Options

starfish accepts the following options:

-window

Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.

-root

Draw on the root window.

-mono

If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display.

-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 microseconds

How much of a delay should be introduced between steps of the animation. Default 10000, or about 1/100th second.

-cycle-delay microseconds

How long to wait between shifing the colormap by one step. Default 100000, or about 1/10th second.

-thickness pixels

How wide each color band should be. Default 0, meaning random (the chosen value will be between 0 and 15.)

-rotation degrees

How quickly the objects should rotate at each step. Default 0, meaning random (the chosen value will be between 0 and 12 degrees.)

-colors int

How many colors to use. Default 200. The more colors, the smoother the transitions will be, and the nicer the resultant images.

-cycle

-no-cycle

Whether to do colormap cycling. Default true.

-duration seconds

How long to run before choosing a new shape. Default 30 seconds.

-delay2 seconds

When duration expires, how long to wait before starting a new run. Default 5 seconds.

-blob

-no-blob

If blob option is specified, then the raw shapes will be shown, instead of a field of colors generated from them.

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.