BIOF(1)

📦 version 0.9.1, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💫 BIOF(1) — the RSS Other Screensaver era 💫

okay bestie, welcome to the RSS Other Screensaver corner of the General Commands Manual 💅 this one's called biof and it is, and I quote, a rotating stack of quads. iconic behavior honestly.

✨ NAME ✨

biof — rotating stack of quads. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🌀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

biof [--root/-r] [--maxfps/-x number] [--vsync/-y number] [--dpms/-M
number] [--preset/-P number] [--lines/-l number] [--points/-p number]
[--offangle]

like, just run it, or run it with a lil stack of flags, your call boo 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this whole thing is an attempt to recreate some of the work of William Latham. go peek at the program 'organic art' at this site (http://www.artworks.co.uk) — yes it's a real link, no I'm not making it up, it's right there in the source, fr fr.

Ported to Linux by Tugrul Galatali. king behavior, ty for your service 🫡

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --root, -r — Draw on the root window. (no window, just vibes on your desktop background ✨)
  • --maxfps, -x number — Set maximum frame rate. put a lil speed limit on it 🏎️
  • --vsync, -y number — Limit redraws to specified number of vertical refreshes. range is 0 - 100. Default: 1.
  • --dpms, -M number — Stop rendering new frames if the display is not on. range is 0 - 1. Default: 1. (if your screen is asleep, so is biof. respectful. 😴)
  • --preset, -P number — pick your geometry era, bestie:
    1. 1 - Triangles (--triangles)
    2. 2 - Spheres (--spheres)
    3. 3 - Big Spheres (--bigspheres)
    4. 4 - Points (--points)
    5. 5 - Lightmap (--lightmap)

Sets geometry type and resets --lines and --points to the defaults from the original program. range is 1 - 5. Default: 1.

  • --lines, -l number — Set number of lines ("arms"). range is 1 - 1024. 🦑
  • --points, -p number — Set number of points per line. range is 1 - 4096. ✨
  • --offangle — Interesting 45 degree view instead of default head on view. main character angle tbh, do it 📐

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • DISPLAY — to get the default host and display number. that's how it knows where to, like, exist. 👀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • X(1), (and yes, that trailing comma is canon, I don't make the rules 💀)

Copyright © 2002 by <hk@dgmr.nl> and Tugrul Galatali.

BioF is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

BioF is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

read that second part again bestie. no warranty. none. zero. it's giving "use at your own risk" energy 😭

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

<hk@dgmr.nl> and Tugrul Galatali <tugrul@galatali.com>

and that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓 this was X Version 11, part of the RSS Other Screensaver collection — mwah, go run it, ily, bye 💖🦋✨

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