KING(1)

💖 KING(1) — the manual page, but make it slay 💖

okay bestie, so this is king from section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and it's literally the moment your terminal gets a whole ✨vibe✨. buckle up, we're doing three-dimensional vector graphics and we're doing it fabulously. 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

king — an interactive system for three-dimensional vector graphics. yes, interactive. yes, three-dimensional. yes, it's giving main character energy. 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

king [options] [input file(s)]

that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual. options and then your input file(s), and honestly the input files are optional, so if you just wanna open it up and stare at the void, be our guest. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so KiNG stands for Kinemage, Next Generation (obsessed with the name fr fr, it ate), and it's an interactive system for three-dimensional vector graphics. 🫶

it supports a set of graphics primitives that make it suitable for soooo many types of graphs, plots, and other illustrations — although its first use was to display macromolecular structures for biophysical research. like, it was born for the science girlies. 🧚

KiNG builds on Mage, JavaMage, and the "kinemage" (kinetic image) concept to deliver a full-featured Java application with a user-friendly interface and integrated editing features. the glow-up is real. 💖

and here's the iconic part: the KiNG jar file can be used within a web page as a Java applet or Java object to promote easy access to kinemages or coordinate files from a web browser. browser girlies, this one's for you. 🌈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -version — print version information. that's it, that's the whole job, and it does it flawlessly. ⭐
• -m[erge] — merge all input files into one kinemage. one kinemage to rule them all, no cap. 🔥
• -s[ingle] — keep all input kin or structure files into separate kinemages. they get to be their own individual main characters. 👑
• -phenix — use Phenix colors for electron density files entered on command line. aesthetic choices matter, bestie. 🎨

note: the bracket-y bits in -m[erge] and -s[ingle] mean you can type the short version or the long version, and both are valid. the more you know. 💫

🍓 INPUT FILES 🍓

KiNG accepts kinemage, PDB, mmCIF, or electron density files as input.

that's the whole guest list. bring any of those and you're seated. 🙈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

King was written by Ian W. Davis <ian.w.davis@gmail.com>, Vincent B. Chen <vincent.chen@duke.edu> and others. absolute legends, we stan. 🫶

This manual page was written by Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). shoutout to Debian for keeping the docs cute and shareable. 💜

so yeah, that's the whole page. Version 2.20, April 2012, page KING(1) — a classic that still hits, and honestly? it's giving timeless. slay, bye bestie. 💖✨🎀