X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fconfig%2Fvidwhacker.xml;h=8c281bbeccbf89f192305678cb127be78976a8e3;hb=6afd6db0ae9396cd7ff897ade597cd5483f49b0e;hp=f9619d7ac0681171439808cef8f443e62a8253df;hpb=9c9d475ff889ed8be02e8ce8c17da28b93278fca;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/hacks/config/vidwhacker.xml b/hacks/config/vidwhacker.xml index f9619d7a..8c281bbe 100644 --- a/hacks/config/vidwhacker.xml +++ b/hacks/config/vidwhacker.xml @@ -8,15 +8,23 @@ _label="Duration" _low-label="2 seconds" _high-label="2 minutes" low="2" high="120" default="5"/> - + + + + + <_description> -This is actually just a shell script that grabs a frame of video from -the system's video input, and then uses some PBM filters (chosen at -random) to manipulate and recombine the video frame in various ways -(edge detection, subtracting the image from a rotated version of -itself, etc.) Then it displays that image for a few seconds, and does -it again. This works really well if you just feed broadcast television +Displays a distorted frame video. + +This is a shell script that grabs a frame of video from the system's +video input, and then uses some PBM filters (chosen at random) to +manipulate and recombine the video frame in various ways (edge +detection, subtracting the image from a rotated version of itself, +etc.) Then it displays that image for a few seconds, and does it +again. This works really well if you just feed broadcast television into it. + +Written by Jamie Zawinski; 1998.