fuzzyflakes - falling snowflakes/flower shapes

fuzzyflakes [-display host:display.screen] [-foreground color] [-background color] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install] [-visual visual] [-delay usecs] [-speed int] [-arms int] [-thickness int] [-bthickness int] [-radius int] [-layers int] [-density int] [-no-db] (-color string) (-random-colors)

The fuzzyflakes program draws falling pastel colored snowflake/flower shapes. Inspired by the credits of the anime "Azumanga Daioh".

fuzzyflakes 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 usecs

The delay between steps of the animation, in microseconds. Default: 250000.

-speed int

How fast, 1-50. Default 10.

-arms int

How many arms on the flakes; default 5.

-thickness int

How thick to make the lines; default 10 pixels.

-bthickness int

How thick to make the borders; default 3 pixels.

-radius int

Radius of the objects; default 20 pixels.

-layers int

How many layers of objects; default 3.

-density int

Default 5.

-no-db

Disable double-buffering.

-color string

The base color for the color scheme. Typed as a hexadecimal triplet with or with out the leading #. ie. fa4563 & #43cd12 are both acceptable. If the saturation of you color is too low (<0.03) the random color generator will kick in. The default color is #efbea5

-random-colors

This enables the random color generation. It is disabled by default. It overrides anything from -color

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.

X(1), xscreensaver(1)

Copyright © 2004 Barry Dmytro. 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 "as is" without express or implied warranty.

Barry Dmytro <badcherry@mailc.net>

The color generation algorithm was borrowed from a friend <ZoeB> from #vegans@irc.blitzed.org. Her site is http://beautifulfreak.net/. To see her original code in action visit her site.