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6 rd-bomb - reaction/diffusion textures
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9 rd-bomb [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color] [--back‐
10 ground color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--install]
11 [--visual visual] [--width n] [--height n] [--reaction n] [--diffusion
12 n] [--size f] [--speed f] [--delay millisecs] [--fps]
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15 The rd-bomb program draws reaction/diffusion textures.
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18 If one of the reaction, diffusion, radius, and palette options is set
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22 Be sure to try "-speed 1 -size 0.1 -epoch 3000".
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24 rd-bomb accepts the following options:
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27 Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
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29 --root Draw on the root window.
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31 --window-id number
32 Draw on the specified window.
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34 --install
35 Install a private colormap for the window.
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38 Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a
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54 --radius n
55 Size of the seed.
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58 What fraction of the window is actively drawn, a floating point
59 number between 0 (exclusive) and 1 (inclusive). Default is
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62 --speed f
63 When a fraction of the screen is active, the active area moves
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68 How many milliseconds to delay between frames; default 1, or
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71 --fps Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
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74 The code is derived from the 'd' mode of the "Bomb" visual musical in‐
75 strument, also by Scott Draves. The equations come from Xmorphia,
76 which is based on a version of the Gray-Scott model taken from:
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78 John E. Pearson "Complex Patterns in a Simple System"
79 Science, 261,189, 9 July 1993.
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82 DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
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85 to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global
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92 X(1), xscreensaver(1),
93 https://scottdraves.com/bomb.html
94 https://web.archive.org/web/19981206145216/http%3A//www.ccsf.cal‐
95 tech.edu/ismap/image.html
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98 Copyright © 1997 by Scott Draves.
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100 Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
101 documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, pro‐
102 vided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
103 both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in sup‐
104 porting documentation.
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107 Scott Draves <spot@cs.cmu.edu>, Sep 1997
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