XaoS

Section: Demos (6)
Updated: 13 Sep 1997
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NAME

XaoS - Fast interactive real-time fractal zoomer/morpher

SYNOPSIS

xaos [options]

DESCRIPTION

XaoS is a protable real-time interactive fractal zoomer/morpher. UNIX version works under X11, SVGA and text terminals. If you don't knwo what fractal is or you want to know more about XaoS features you should see animated tutorial. Run XaoS and press 'H' twice. It is much more fun than reading of boring manual page :) and it supports foregin languages. You might also read xaos.info file for some advanced stuff (like how to write animations and tutorials manually, port or extend XaoS, algorithms used etc.)

OPTIONS

XaoS' options should be divided into following parts:

Ugly interface options: This options are common for all installations of XaoS because only interface available for now is ugly interface.
Driver selection options: This options lets you choose graphics driver.
Driver depended options: This options depends on available drivers.

SCREEN SIZE OPTIONS

Knowedge of exact screen size needs XaoS to make random dot stereograms and choosing good view areas for fractal. This should be done by two ways. Choosing screen size or choosing pixel size. Screen size is best for fullscreen drivers where resolution(so pixel size) should be changed. At the other hand pixel size is best for windowed envireoments where some kind of virtual screen etc should confuse calculation of pixel size from screen size.

-screenwidth: exact size of screen in centimeters
-screenheight: exact size of screen in centimeters
-pixelwidth: exact size of pixel in centimeters
-pixelheight: exact size of pixel in centimeters

DRIVER SELECTION OPTIONS

Every xaos installation has some graphics driver. This depends on used operating system, available libraries and configuration. XaoS by default tries to enable best available driver. So it for example in GNU/Linux case it tests drivers in following order:
SVGAlib
X11
curses
Following options are used to control this operation:

-driver: This options lets you specify driver to use and avoid autodection.
-list: List available drivers and then exit.

OTHER UI OPTIONS

Other options are quite easy to understand and depends on XaoS configuration and version, so I do not describe them here use xaos -help for complette list of options with description.

BUGS

There is no known bugs in this release. See xaos home-page at: http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS for list with solutions. Please report bugs to xaos@horac.ta.jcu.cz

AUTHORS

Maitainer:
Jan Hubicka (hubicka@paru.cas.cz)
smail:
Jan Hubicka
Dukelskych bojovniku 1944
Tabor
39003
Czech Republic

Thomas Marsh (tmarsh@austion.ibm.com)
See README for full credits

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