Metaballs

 

NAME

MetaBalls – draws 2D metaballs  

SYNOPSIS

MetaBalls [-display host:display.screen] [-visual visual] [-window] [-root] [-ncolors number] [-count number] [-delay number] [-cycles number] [-radius number] [-delta number] [-fps]  

DESCRIPTION

This hack draws 2D metaballs to the screen by calculating the sum of the colors of all metaballs covering a pixel. Ported from the demo effects collection (http://demo-effects.sourceforge.net)  

OPTIONS

-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.

-window

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

-root

Draw on the root window.

-ncolors number

Number of Colors. Default: 256.

-count number

Number of MetaBalls.   2 – 255. Default: 10.

-delay number

Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 5000 (0.005 seconds.).

-cycles number

Duration. 100 – 3000. Default: 1000.

-radius number

MetaBall Radius. 2 – 100. Default: 100.

-delta number

MetaBall Movement. 1 – 20. Default: 3.

-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.