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strange attractors.

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

flow [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number] [--count number] [--cycles number] [--periodic|--no-periodic] [--search|--no-search] [--rotate|--no-rotate] [--ride|--no-ride] [--box|--no-box] [--dbuf|--no-dbuf] [--ncolors number] [--delay number] [--fps]

Description

Strange attractors formed of flows in a 3D differential equation phase space.  Features the popular attractors described by Lorentz, Roessler, Birkhoff and Duffing, and can discover entirely new attractors by itself.

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.

--window-id number

Draw on the specified window.

--count number

Number of particles in the flow.  Default: 3000

--size number

Length of particle trails.  Negative values indicate randomness.  The computational load of a given flow depends on (particle count) * (trail length).  Default: -10

--cycles number

Timeout before changing objects.  0 - 800000.  Default: 10000.

--periodic
--no-periodic

turn on/off periodic attractors.  These are flows in 2 dependent variables, with a periodic dependence on a third independent variable (eg time).  Flow will sometimes choose to start all the particles in the same phase to illustrate the flow's cross-section.  Default: on

--search
--no-search

turn on/off search for new attractors.  If this is enabled, a fraction of the computing cycles is directed to searching a 60-dimensional parameter space for new strange attractors.  If periodic flows are enabled, these can be searched too.  Watch carefully - you are quite likely to see mathematical objects that have never been seen before, and since the parameters are not recorded, you'll probably never see them again!  Default: on

--rotate
--no-rotate

turn on/off rotating around attractor.  Default: on

--ride
--no-ride

turn on/off ride in the flow.  Default: on

If both -rotate and -ride are enabled the viewpoint will occasionally fly between the two views.

--box
--no-box

turn on/off bounding box.  Default: on

--dbuf
--no-dbuf

turn on/off double buffering.  If Flow runs slowly in full screen, but fast in a smaller window (eg on old graphics cards with too little memory), try turning this option off.  Default: on

--ncolors number

Number of Colors.  Default: 200.

--delay number

Per-frame delay, in microseconds.  Default: 10000 (0.01 seconds.).

--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.

XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW

The window ID to use with --root.

See Also

X(1), xscreensaver(1)

Author

Tim Auckland

Info

6.09-2.fc41 (21-Jul-2024) X Version 11 XScreenSaver manual