FIELDLINES(1)

💖 FIELDLINES(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the fieldlines page — part of the Really Sli...creenSavers fam, living in the General Commands Manual section of your local X Version 11 setup. Grab a snack, we're doing physics ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

fieldlines — it's literally a simulation of the electric field lines between charged particles. yes. that's the whole thing. and it's gorgeous 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

fieldlines [--root/-r] [--maxfps/-x number] [--vsync/-y number]
[--dpms/-M number] [--ions/-i number] [--stepsize/-s number]
[--maxsteps/-m number] [--width/-w number] [--speed/-S number]
[--constwidth/-c] [--no-constwidth/-C] [--electric/-e] [--no-
electric/-E]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Straight from Terry Walsh (http://reallyslick.com), and I quote, no cap:

"This is a simulation of the electric field lines between charged particles. Physics never looked so good."

Physics never looked so good. he said that. and he ATE. 🔥

Ported to Linux by Tugrul Galatali 🫶

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay this is the part where you actually get to customize the vibe. one bullet per flag, everything listed, nothing skipped, periodt:

• --root — draw it on the root window. like, directly on your desktop. main character energy 🌈
• --maxfps number — sets the maximum frame rate. cap it, bestie.
• --vsync number — limits redraws to the specified number of vertical refreshes. range is 0 - 100. default: 1
• --dpms number — stops rendering new frames if the display is not on. range is 0 - 1. default: 1
• --ions number — number of ions. range is 1 - 100. default: 4
• --stepsize number — step length along the lines. range is 1 - 100. default: 15
• --maxsteps number — max number of steps. range is 1 - 1000. default: 100
• --width number — line width. range is 1 - 100. default: 30
• --speed number — speed. range is 1 - 100. default: 10
• --constwidth — constant line width. default: False
• --electric — electric. default: False

🙈 psst — the synopsis also lists the opposite twins, --no-constwidth/-C and --no-electric/-E. they're right there in the usage line, so don't be surprised when you see them 👑

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

• DISPLAY — used to get the default host and display number. it's how fieldlines knows where to show up 💜

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💫 SEE ALSO 💫

• X(1),

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2002 by Terry Walsh and Tugrul Galatali.

Fieldlines 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.

Fieldlines 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.

💀 no warranty bestie. it's giving "use at your own risk" and honestly? iconic.

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Terry Walsh and Tugrul Galatali <tugrul@galatali.com>

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and that's the whole page, you're welcome 💖

this lil manual came out of X Version 11 under the Really Sli...creenSavers(1) banner — so yeah, you're reading a genuine, certified, X11-era classic. go make some electric field lines, you absolute legend 🎀✨🦋