sierpinski(6x)

sierpinski 💫

okay so this is the glow-up of the sierpinski page from the XScreenSaver manual, manual section 6x. She draws Sierpinski triangle fractals, and honestly? iconic fractal behavior. 🔺✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

sierpinski — draws Sierpinski triangle fractals. That's the whole gig, bestie. Fractal triangles, served fresh. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

sierpinski [--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]

       [--fps]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The sierpinski program draws Sierpinski triangle fractals. no cap, that is literally the description: triangles inside triangles inside triangles, main character energy all the way down. 🔥

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

sierpinski accepts the following options:

• --window — draw on a newly-created window. This is the default, so if you don't specify anything, that's the vibe. 🪟✨
• --root — draw on the root window. Going full desktop-background mode. 🌈
• --window-id number — draw on the specified window. You point at the window, she does her thing. 🫶
• --mono — if you're on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display. monochrome delusion: accepted. 🖤🤍
• --install — install a private colormap for the window. Very private. Very colormap. 💅
• --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. fancy visual selection, iykyk. 🎨
• --ncolors integer — how many colors should be used (if possible). Default 64. The colors are chosen randomly. random color chaos, lowkey obsessed. 🌈💖
• --cycles integer — the original page gives this one no description at all, bestie. I'm not inventing lore, so here it is exactly as listed. 🫶
• --count integer — same situation: this one is listed with no description in the original, and I'm not gonna make up behavior. No cap. 😭
• --fps — display the current frame rate and CPU load. performance girlies, this one's for you. 📈🔥

tiny sidebar: the synopsis also shows --delay microseconds, but the original OPTIONS list doesn't give it its own description — so I'm not guessing at behavior. Just keeping the receipts. 🧾✨

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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. resource file override realness. 🗂️
• XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW — the window ID to use with --root. 🪟💜

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

X(1), xscreensaver(1), xlock(1)

bestie, go read the friends too. they're part of the ecosystem. 🫶📚

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright © 1996 by Desmond Daignault.

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.

legal tea, preserved exactly. don't edit the license, periodt. ☕💅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

• Desmond Daignault <tekdd@dtol.datatimes.com>, 05-Sep-96. (Original xlock version was called tri.c.) 🎀
• Ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 10-May-97. (Renamed to sierpinski.) 🦋

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💖 cute little sign-off: this page is from X Version 11, 6.09 (07-Jun-2024), and it's the sierpinski(6x) manual — mwah, bye bestie! 💅✨