hopalong(6x)

🌸 NAME 🌸

hopalong(6x) — this is the page from the XScreenSaver manual, and the program is here to draw real plane fractals. That's the name and the whole point, no cap. Slay.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Peep the invocation, bestie — and yes, I'm keeping the funky duplicates and the missing-looking bits exactly as the original has them:

hopalong [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color]
[--background color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--mono]
[--install] [--visual visual] [--ncolors integer] [--delay microseconds]
[--cycles integer] [--count integer] [--jong] [--no-jong] [--jong]
[--no-sine]

[--fps]

tiny heads-up: the synopsis has --display, --foreground color, --background color, and --delay microseconds in it, but the OPTIONS list below doesn't give those their own descriptions. I'm not inventing tea, okay? 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the hop program — yes, the description says hop, not hopalong, and we're not gonna pretend otherwise — generates real plane fractals. The source of the vibe is literally the September 1986 issue of Scientific American. Iconic behavior. ✨

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

hopalong accepts the following options, and every single one is staying right here:

• --window — Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default, so if you don't pick anything, that's the one.
• --root — Draw on the root window.
• --window-id number — Draw on the specified window.
• --mono — If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display. Delulu, but make it monochrome.
• --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.
• --ncolors integer — How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 200. The colors used cycle through the hue, making N stops around the color wheel.
• --cycles integer — How long to run each batch. Default 2500 pixels.
• --count integer — How many pixels should be drawn before a color change. Default 1000.
• --jong integer — the original gives this one no description text, so I'm not making one up.
• --no-jong integer — Whether to use the Jong format (default is to choose randomly.)
• --sine integer — same situation: no description text in the original, so no invented lore here.
• --no-sine integer — Whether to use the Sine format (default is to choose randomly.)
• --fps — Display the current frame rate and CPU load.

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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 🌈

You already know: X(1), xscreensaver(1), xlock(1). Go read, bestie.

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Legal moment, but make it cute: Copyright © 1988-91 by Patrick J. Naughton.

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.

That's the whole permission slip — keep the notice, bestie. 🫶

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Patrick J. Naughton <naughton@eng.sun.com>, 23-mar-88.

Ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 13-aug-92, and again on 10-May-97.

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okay bye bestie — this was X Version 11, 6.09 (07-Jun-2024), page hopalong(6x). Stay fractalicious. 💅✨