xaos - Fast interactive real-time fractal zoomer/morpher

xaos [options]

XaoS is a portable real-time interactive fractal zoomer/morpher. The UNIX version works under X11, SVGA and text terminals. If you don't know what a fractal is, or you want to know more about XaoS features, you should see the animated tutorial. Run XaoS and press 'H' twice. It is much more fun than reading the boring manual page :) and it supports foreign languages. You might also want to read the xaos.info file for some advanced stuff (like how to write animations and tutorials manually, port or extend XaoS, algorithms used etc.)

XaoS' options are divided into the following groups:

Ugly interface options

These options are common across all installations of XaoS because the only interface available for now is the ugly interface.

Driver selection options

These options let you choose the graphics driver.

Driver dependent options

These options depend on available drivers.

XaoS needs exact knowledge of the screen size to make random dot stereograms and for choosing good viewing areas for fractals. This can be done in two ways, by choosing screen size or choosing the pixel size. Screen size is best for fullscreen drivers where resolution/pixel-size may be changed. On the other hand, pixel size is best for windowed environments where some kind of virtual screen, etc. could confuse calculation of pixel size from the screen size.

-screenwidth

exact width of the screen in centimeters

-screenheight

exact height of the screen in centimeters

-pixelwidth

exact size of a pixel's width in centimeters

-pixelheight

exact size of a pixel's height in centimeters

Every XaoS installation has some graphics drivers. Which are available depends on which operating system you have, available libraries and configurations. XaoS by default tries to enable the best available driver. So for example, in the cas of GNU/Linux, it tests the drivers in the following order:

SVGAlib

X11

curses

The following options are used to control this operation:

-driver

This option lets you specify the driver to use and avoid autodetection.

-list

List available drivers and then exit.

The remaining options are quite easy to understand and depend on XaoS configuration and version, so I do not describe how to use them here. xaos -help for a complete list of options with descriptions.

There are no known bugs in this release. See the XaoS home-page at: http://xaos.sf.net for a list of bugs with solutions. Please report bugs to the authors.

Maintainer:

Jan Hubicka (jh@ucw.cz)

smail:

Jan Hubicka

Dukelskych bojovniku 1944

Tabor

39003

Czech Republic



Thomas Marsh (tmarsh@austion.ibm.com)

See AUTHORS for full credits