wormhole - animation of flying through a wormhole

wormhole [-display host:display.screen] [-window] [-visual visual] [-root] [-stars n] [-delay usecs] [-zspeed n]

The wormhole program shows an animation of flying through a tunnel surrounded by streaks of light.

wormhole accepts the following options:

-window

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

-root

Draw on the root window.

-mono

Make all the rocks the same color.

-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.

-stars integer

Number of stars to create every animation loop.

-zspeed integer

Speed light streaks fly by.

-delay microseconds

Number of microseconds to delay between each frame. Default 50000, meaning about 1/20th second. Compare and contrast with -speed, above.

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 by Jon Rafkind. 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.

Jon Rafkind <jon@rafkind.com>