wormhole — animation of flying through a wormhole

Synopsis

wormhole [-display host:display.screen] [-window] [-visual visual] [-root] [-stars n] [-delay usecs] [-zspeed n] [-fps]

Description

The wormhole program shows an animation of flying through a tunnel surrounded by streaks of light.

Options

wormhole accepts the following options:
-window
Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
-root
Draw on the root window.
-mono
Make all the rocks the same color.
-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.
-stars integer
Number of stars to create every animation loop.
-zspeed integer
Speed light streaks fly by.
-delay microseconds
Number of microseconds to delay between each frame. Default 10000, meaning about 1/100th second. Compare and contrast with -zspeed, above.
-fps
Display the current frame rate and CPU load.

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.

Author

Jon Rafkind <jon@rafkind.com>