flam3-animate(1)

💖 flam3-animate — the whole girlboss FLAM3 squad 💖

okay bestie, buckle up, this is flam3-animate(1) from the General Commands Manual (section 1, the classic, the icon) 🌈

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✨ NAME ✨

flam3-animate — render and animate FLAM3s and manipulate their genomes flam3-render — render and animate FLAM3s and manipulate their genomes flam3-genome — render and animate FLAM3s and manipulate their genomes flam3-convert — render and animate FLAM3s and manipulate their genomes

no fr, all four of them have the exact same one-liner. it's giving "we're a friend group and we all share one bio." obsessed 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

flam3-render < input

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. you pipe a thing in and it does its little thing 🎀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

FLAM3 implements a visual language based on a recursive set equation. 🌸

lowkey a whole aesthetic engine. let me break down the squad for you:

• flam3-genome creates and manipulates genomes (xml parameter sets) in this language. it's the one holding the little DNA vials 🧬
• flam3-render turns genomes into still images. single frame, one perfect pic, main character energy 📸
• flam3-animate renders motion-blurred frames of animation. it's the motion, the drama, the ✨cinema✨
• flam3-convert reads from stdin files in the old format used by the flame GIMP plugin, and writes the new format to stdout. glow-up conversion service, no cap 🦋

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• any command line option — literally any one of them, doesn't matter which, and the program will write its documentation to standard out. it's not a flag, it's a cry for attention (affectionate) 😭

bestie this is not a typo. passing a command line option = getting the docs. that IS the behaviour. periodt.

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✨ ENVIRONMENT ✨

the environment variables are in the documentation written to standard out given any command line option. so like… to meet the env vars you gotta trigger the docs. they live in there. you have to go in 🫶

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• WWW.FLAM3.COM
• electricsheep(1),

(that trailing comma is staying, it's part of the original lore, iykyk 💀)

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

spot aka Scott Draves, Erik Reckase — legends, the blueprint, we stan 👑

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 go forth and render something iconic. also hi, this was flam3-animate(1), from the General Commands Manual, written on out here in the wild — that's the version/source energy at the bottom of every page, slay ✨👑💅