moebius(6x)

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version 6.17 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

✨ moebius — bestie edition ✨

okay so this is moebius(6x) from the XScreenSaver manual and it is literally the cutest little ant situation you've ever seen 🐜💖

🦋 NAME 🦋

moebius — Escher's Moebius Strip II, but make it ants. no cap.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

moebius [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window]
        [--root] [--window-id number] [-delay number] [-solidmoebius]
        [-wireframe] [-noants] [-fps]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Another M. C. Escher hack, this one from Marcelo Vianna, and the way that it draws ``Moebius Strip II''??? iconic. it's a GL image of ants walking along the surface of a moebius strip. that's it. that's the whole thing. ants. on a moebius strip. main character energy fr fr 🐜✨

👑 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, bestie, you don't gotta do anything.
  • --root — draw on the root window.
  • --window-id number — draw on the specified window. yes, that one.
  • --delay number — per-frame delay, in microseconds. default: 20000 (that's 0.02 seconds, bestie).
  • --solidmoebius — solid floor.
  • --wireframe — render in wireframe instead of solid.
  • --noants | --no-noants — draw ants. boolean. (yes it's a double negative, no we don't make the rules 🫶)
  • --fps — display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count.

🌈 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)

Copyright © 2002 by Marcelo Vianna. 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.

lowkey the legal speak is doing the most but it's giving generous. no fee, go off. 💅

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Marcelo Vianna.

okay bestie that's the whole page 🦋💖 this shipped as X Version 11, 6.17-1.fc44, dated 13-Oct-2026, and yes we are still obsessed with the ants. periodt. 🐜👑

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