dymaxionmap(6x)

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version 6.17 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

💫 NAME 💫

dymaxionmap — an animation of Buckminster Fuller's unwrapped icosahedral globe. Yes bestie, we're unfolding the entire Earth like it's a lil origami situation and it is gorgeous. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dymaxionmap [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--speed ratio] [--no-
wander] [--no-roll] [--no-stars] [--no-grid] [--flat] [--satellite]
[--image file] [--image2 file] [--frames number] [--wireframe] [--fps]

🌍 DESCRIPTION 🌍

Okay so picture this: Buckminster Fuller's map of the Earth, but projected onto the surface of an unfolded icosahedron. Twenty triangles just vibing flat on your screen. It shows the Earth's continents as one single island — or like, nearly contiguous land masses — which is the whole point and honestly? Iconic. 👑

This screen saver animates the progression of the dusk terminator across the flattened globe (yes, the day/night line, the sunset shadow sweeping across the whole planet, chef's kiss 🎀). It comes with both satellite imagery and flat-colored map imagery, and — this is the fun part — it can load and convert other Equirectangular-projected maps too. So your fave map can get the dymaxion treatment. slay.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --visual visual — Pick which visual to use, bestie. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of one specific visual.
  • --window — Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default, no cap.
  • --root — Draw on the root window. main character energy, covering everything.
  • --window-id number — Draw on the specified window. Very "I know exactly which window I want" of you.
  • --delay number — Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (that's 0.02 seconds). Tiny little sips of time between frames. 🍓
  • --speed ratio — Speed of the animation. 0.5 means half as fast, 2 means twice as fast. Go feral, make it zoom.
  • --wander | --no-wander — Whether the object should wander around the screen. Default yes. It's a free spirit fr fr. 🧚
  • --roll | --no-roll — Whether the object should roll randomly. Default yes. Spinning for no reason? We love that for it.
  • --stars | --no-stars — Whether to display a star field. Default yes. Space background, obviously, we are in space. ⭐
  • --grid | --no-grid — Whether to overlay a latitude/longitude grid over the map. Default yes. Griddy. 🌈
  • --flat — Display a flat-colored map of the Earth. This is the default.
  • --satellite — Display a day-time satellite map of the Earth. Daytime. Sun. Vitamin D. ☀️
  • --image file — An image to use for the day-time map.
  • --image2 file — An image to use for the night-time map. And listen: the two images can be the same file — the night-time one just gets darkened. Babygirl is thrifty like that. 💜
  • --frames number — The number of frames in the day/night animation. Default 720. Larger numbers are smoother, but use more memory (so, trade-off, iykyk). Also: the day/night animation happens if image2 is set, or if frames is greater than 1. So like, those are your two on-ramps.
  • --wireframe | --no-wireframe — Render in wireframe instead of solid. Skeleton mode. Bones out. 💀
  • --fps | --no-fps — Whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of the screen. Numbers go brrr. 🔥

🫶 ENVIRONMENT 🫶

  • 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 👀

X(1), xscreensaver(1) glplanet(6x)

Copyright © 2016-2018 by Jamie Zawinski. 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.

"Dymaxion Map" and "The Fuller Projection Map" are trademarks of The Buckminster Fuller Institute. So like, don't be out here using those names all willy-nilly, bestie. 🚫

The original Dymaxion Map image is copyright © 1982 by The Buckminster Fuller Institute. (This program does not use their imagery, only similar trigonometry.) — so it's giving inspired-by, not copy-paste, periodt.

The Dymaxion Map was covered by now-expired US Patent 2,393,676 (Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1946). Expired!! Public domain!! Free real estate!! 🎉

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Jamie Zawinski.

okay that's the whole thing, you're a dymaxion map expert now, I'm so proud of you 💖 this was dymaxionmap(6x) from the XScreenSaver manual, X Version 11, version 6.17-1.fc44 (13-Oct-2026). go forth and unfold a planet, bestie. 🌍✨

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