cloudlife(6x)

💖 NAME 💖 — cloudlife(6x) from the XScreenSaver manual, bestie 💖

cloudlife — a cellular automaton based on Conway's Life. Yes, that's the name tea. ☕

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

The summoning spell, fr:

cloudlife [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color]
[--background color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--mono]
[--install] [--visual visual] [--ncolors integer] [--cycle-delay microseconds]
[--cycle-colors integer][--cell-size integer] [--initial-density integer]
[--max-age integer]

[--fps]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so cloudlife draws a cellular automaton based on Conway's Life — but make it fashion: cells have a maximum age, and every tick only one pixel per cell is drawn. That's the whole vibe. 💅

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

cloudlife accepts the following options, and yes bestie, we're going through all of them:

• --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. 👀
• --mono — if you're on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display. 🖤
• --install — install a private colormap for the window. 🎨
• --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. ✨
• --cycle-delay integer — time in microseconds to sleep between ticks. Default 25000. 😴
• --cycle-colors integer — how many ticks should elapse between cycling colors. 0 to disable color cycling. Default 2. 🌈
• --ncolors integer — how many colors should be used (if possible). Default 64. The colors are chosen randomly. 🎲
• --cell-size integer — size of each cell, in powers of 2. Default 3 (8-pixel cells). 🔍
• --initial-density integer — percentage of cells that are alive at start and when the field is repopulated. Default 30. 🌱
• --max-age integer — maximum age for a cell. Default 64. 👵
• --fps — display the current frame rate and CPU load. 📈

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

The environment variables are giving backstage pass energy:

• 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. 🪟

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Go check out X(1), xscreensaver(1), and xlock(1) — they're the supporting cast. 💫

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright © 2003 by Don Marti. Based on examples from the hacks directory of xscreensaver, Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 2002 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>.

This man page based on the man page of sierpinski, Copyright © 1996 by Desmond Daignault.

The legal tea, no cap:

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation.

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Written by Don Marti <dmarti@zgp.org> on 20 May 2003.

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That's the whole cloudlife(6x) situation from X Version 11, version 6.09 (07-Jun-2024) — bye bestie, slay! 🫶