flame(6)

NAME
flame - draw weird cosmic fractals

SYNOPSIS
flame [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color] [--background color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--mono] [--install] [--visual visual] [--colors integer] [--iterations integer] [--points integer] [--delay microseconds] [--delay2 microseconds] [--fps]

DESCRIPTION
The flame program generates colorful fractal displays.

OPTIONS
flame accepts the following options:

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

--root
    Draw on the root window.

--window-id number
    Draw on the specified 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.

--colors integer
    How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 64.

--iterations integer
    How many fractals to generate. Default 25.

--points integer
    How many pixels to draw for each fractal. Default 10000.

--delay microseconds
    How long we should wait between drawing each fractal. Default 50000, or about 1/20th second.

--delay2 microseconds
    How long we should wait before clearing the screen when each run ends. Default 2000000, or two seconds.

--fps
    Display the current frame rate and CPU load.

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.

SEE ALSO
X(1), xscreensaver(1), xlock(1)

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 1991 by Patrick J. Naughton Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.

AUTHOR
Scott Graves <spot@cs.cmu.edu>, 06-Jun-91.n Ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 18-Oct-93.