halftone(6x)

✨ halftone — XScreenSaver manual ✨

okay bestie, so this is halftone(6x) from the XScreenSaver manual and it is lowkey one of the prettiest little hacks ever. let me tell you everything 💖

🎀 NAME 🎀

halftone — a simple halftone pattern of moving mass points. that's it. that's the vibe.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

halftone [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
[--root] [--window-id number] [--count number] [--spacing number]
[--sizefactor number] [--delay number] [--minmass number] [--maxmass
number] [--minspeed number] [--maxspeed number] [--fps]

like, yes, that's a lot of flags. don't panic. we'll get to every single one 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so picture this: it draws the gravity force at each point on the screen, seen through a halftone dot pattern. the gravity force is calculated from a set of moving mass points. that's the whole concept and honestly? iconic.

the pro tip: view it from a distance for best effect 👀 no cap, walk away from your monitor. it hits different. it's giving magic-eye poster energy.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --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.
• --count number — How many mass points to move around. Default: 10
• --spacing number — Distance between each halftone dot. Default: 14
• --sizefactor number — How big each halftone dot should be drawn compared to the spacing value. Default: 1.5
• --minmass number — The minimum mass of each mass point. Default: 0.001
• --maxmass number — The maximum mass of each mass point. Default: 0.02
• --minspeed number — The minimum speed of each mass point. Default: 0.001
• --maxspeed number — The maximum speed of each mass point. Default: 0.02
• --delay number — Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 10000
• --fps — Display the current frame rate and CPU load.

💀 tiny numbers alert: the mass and speed defaults are the actual defaults, don't go changing them to 1 and then @ me about it. respect the decimals fr fr.

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🌈 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.

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• X(1)
• xscreensaver(1)

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2002 by Peter Jaric. 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.

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Peter Jaric

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okay that's the whole page, bestie, you're officially a halftone expert 🌟 this was X Version 11, 6.09 (07-Jun-2024), and that's the tea 💜💅