1 .TH XScreenSaver 1 "" "X Version 11"
3 MetaBalls - draws 2D metaballs
6 [\-display \fIhost:display.screen\fP]
7 [\-visual \fIvisual\fP]
10 [\-ncolors \fInumber\fP]
11 [\-count \fInumber\fP]
12 [\-delay \fInumber\fP]
13 [\-cycles \fInumber\fP]
14 [\-radius \fInumber\fP]
15 [\-delta \fInumber\fP]
18 This hack draws 2D metaballs to the screen by calculating the sum of the colors of all metaballs covering a pixel.
19 Ported from the demo effects collection (http://demo-effects.sourceforge.net)
22 .B \-visual \fIvisual\fP
23 Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class,
24 or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
27 Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
30 Draw on the root window.
32 .B \-ncolors \fInumber\fP
33 Number of Colors. Default: 256.
35 .B \-count \fInumber\fP
36 Number of MetaBalls. 2 - 255. Default: 10.
38 .B \-delay \fInumber\fP
39 Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 5000 (0.005 seconds.).
41 .B \-cycles \fInumber\fP
42 Duration. 100 - 3000. Default: 1000.
44 .B \-radius \fInumber\fP
45 MetaBall Radius. 2 - 100. Default: 100.
47 .B \-delta \fInumber\fP
48 MetaBall Movement. 1 - 20. Default: 3.
51 Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
56 to get the default host and display number.
59 to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources
60 stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
65 Copyright \(co 2002-2003 by W.P. van Paassen. Permission to use, copy, modify,
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