Home
Main website
Display Sidebar
Hide Ads
Recent Changes
View Source:
t3d(1)
Edit
PageHistory
Diff
Info
LikePages
t3d !!!t3d NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS AUTHOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT COPYING DISCLAIMER KNOWN BUGS ---- !!NAME t3d - clock using flying balls to display the time !!SYNOPSIS t3d [[ ''options'' ]... !!DESCRIPTION Time 3D is a clock. It uses flying balls to display the time. This balls move and wobble around to give you the impression your graphic workstation with its many XStones is doing something. t3d uses mouse and keyboard to let you fly through the balls. Hit __S__ to speed up, __A__ to slow down, __Z__ to zoom in and __X__ to zoom out. Use the __left mouse button__ to rotate to the left and the __right mouse button__ to rotate the view to the right. Use the __middle mouse button__ to change the optical axis and the moving direction. __0__ (zero) will stop you. __Q__ quits. !!OPTIONS __-move__ ''factor'' Modifies the direction move of t3d. The clock looks 30 degrees* ''factor'' to the left and to the right periodically. __-wobble__ ''factor'' Modifies the wobbling (sounds nice :-) of t3d by multiplying the default deformation of the clock with ''factor.'' __-minutes__ Shows one small ball for every minute, instead of one for every 2.5 minutes. __-mag__ ''factor'' Changes the magnification of t3d. By default, t3d draws a 200x200 image. A .I factor of 2 means, it will use a 400x400 image. __-cycle__ ''period'' Sets the moving cycle to ''period'' seconds. By default, this value is 10 seconds. __-wait__ ''microsec'' Inserts a wait after drawing one view of the clock. By default, t3d waits 40 ms after each drawing. This helps you to keep the performance loss small. __-fast__ ''precalc_radius'' t3d uses bitmap copy to draw precalculated balls. You can specify the radius in pixels up to which t3d should precalculate balls. t3d will set a useful range by itself using the magnification when it is started. __-colcycle__ Draws cyclic the color scale used for the balls in the background instead of the normal black. __-rgb__ ''red green blue'' Selects the color in RGB color space of the lightning spot on the balls. All the other colors used for balls or __-colcycle__ are less intensive colors of the same hue and saturation. All values in range of 0 to 1. __-hsv__ ''hue saturation value'' Selects the color in HSV color space. ''hue'' is in degrees from 0 to 360, all other values in range from 0 to 1. It gives nice but rather unpredictable results, if you use a saturation of e.g. 2. Try it at your own risk. __-hsvcycle__ ''speed'' Rotates the hue axis every 10 seconds* ''speed.'' __-help__ Prints a short usage message. !!AUTHOR Bernd Paysan Email: bernd.paysan@gmx.de Hacked on by jwz@jwz.org for xscreensaver. !!ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Acknowledgement to Georg Acher, who wrote the initial program displaying balls. !!COPYING Copy, modify, and distribute T3D either under GPL version 2 or newer, or under the standard MIT/X license notice. !!DISCLAIMER T3D is not related to T3D(tm), the massive parallel Alpha--based supercomputer from Cray Research. T3D's name was invented in 1991, years before the project at Cray Research started. There is no relation from T3D to Cray's T3D, even the balls surrounding T3D on some posters weren't an inspiration for T3D. I don't know anything about the other way round. The programming style of T3D isn't intented as example of good style, but as example of how a fast prototyped demo may look like. T3D wasn't created to be useful, it was created to be nice. !!KNOWN BUGS There are no known bugs in T3D. Maybe there are bugs in X. Slight changes in the T3D sources are known to show these bugs, e.g. if you remove the (int) casting at the XFillArc x,y,w,h-coordinates... ----
2 pages link to
t3d(1)
:
xscreensaver(1)
Man1t
This page is a man page (or other imported legacy content). We are unable to automatically determine the license status of this page.
