apollonian(6)

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🦋 apollonian(6) 🦋

okay so bestie, welcome to apollonian(6) from the XScreenSaver manual — it's the page about packing a big circle with a bunch of smaller circles, and honestly the geometry is serving. no cap, it's giving "art class but make it math." let's get into it 💖

✨ NAME ✨

apollonian — Descartes Circle Theorem.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

apollonian [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number] [--no-label] [--no-altgeom] [--cycles number] [--ncolors number] [--delay number] [--fps]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Packs a large circle with smaller circles, demonstrating the Descartes Circle Theorem.

like, it literally fills one big circle with smaller circles and shows off the theorem. lowkey mesmerizing, highkey educational. 🫶

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

every flag, bestie — no skips, no crumbs:

  • --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.
  • --label | --no-label — Draw Labels. Boolean.
  • --altgeom | --no-altgeom — Include Alternate Geometries. Boolean.
  • --cycles number — Depth. 1 - 20. Default: 20.
  • --ncolors number — Number of Colors. Default: 64.
  • --delay number — Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 1000000 (1.00 seconds.).
  • --fps — Display the current frame rate and CPU load.

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

the environment variables are also main characters, periodt:

  • 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 👑

go check out X(1) and xscreensaver(1) — iykyk, they're part of the same iconic universe. ✨

Copyright © 2002 by Allan R. Wilks and David Bagley. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Allan R. Wilks and David Bagley.

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