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XScreenSaver !!!XScreenSaver NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS ENVIRONMENT SEE ALSO HISTORY COPYRIGHT AUTHOR ---- !!NAME munch - munching squares screen hack !!SYNOPSIS __munch__ [[-display ''host:display.screen''] [[-foreground ''color''] [[-background ''color''] [[-window] [[-root] [[-mono] [[-install] [[-visual ''visual''] [[-delay ''seconds''] [[-xor] [[-noxor] [[-shift] [[-noshift] [[-logminwidth ''minimum width''] !!DESCRIPTION The ''munch'' program preforms the munching squares hack until killed. It picks square size, position, and gravity randomly; configurable options are listed below. The munching squares hack cosists of drawing Y = X XOR T for a range of X and T over and over until all the possible combinations of X and T have come up. It was reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright in 1962 and took 5 instructions of PDP-6 code. !!OPTIONS ''munch'' 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__ ''seconds'' How long to wait before starting over. Default 5 seconds. __-xor__ Use the XOR drawing function. (Default.) __-no-xor__ Don't use the XOR drawing function. __-shift__ Start drawing the square at weird starting points. (Default.) __-no-shift__ Don't shift and start drawing the square at weird starting points. __-logminwidth__ ''minimum-width'' The logarithm (base 2) of the minimum with of a square (must be a power of 2, or some parts of the square aren't.) !!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. !!SEE ALSO X(1), xscreensaver(1), __http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html, http://www.comedia.com/Hot/jargon_3.0/JARGON_M/MUNCHSQR.HTML__ !!HISTORY Quoted from HAKMEM, for historical interest. As that document says, ITEM 146: MUNCHING SQUARES Another simple display program. It is thought that this was discovered by Jackson Wright on the RLE PDP-1 circa 1962. DATAI 2 ADDB 1,2 ROTC 2,-22 XOR 1,2 JRST .-4 2=X, 3=Y. Try things like 1001002 in data switches. This also does interesting things with operations other than XOR, and rotations other than -22. (Try IOR; AND; TSC; FADR; FDV(!); ROT -14, -9, -20, ...) ITEM 147 (Schroeppel): Munching squares is just views of the graph Y = X XOR T for consecutive values of T = time. ITEM 148 (Cohen, Beeler): A modification to munching squares which reveals them in frozen states through opening and closing curtains: insert FADR 2,1 before the XOR. Try data switches = 4000,,4 1000,,2002 2000,,4 0,,1002 (Notation: Also try the FADR after the XOR, switches = 1001,,1. !!COPYRIGHT Copyright 1997 by Tim Showalter. 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 !!AUTHOR Tim Showalter ----
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