1hydrostat(6x) XScreenSaver manual hydrostat(6x)
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6 hydrostat - Wiggly squid or jellyfish with many tentacles.
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9 hydrostat [-display host:display.screen] [-visual visual] [-window]
10 [-root] [-delay number] [-speed number] [-count number] [-head-radius
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12 [-gravity number] [-current number] [-friction number] [-no-pulse]
13 [-wireframe] [-fps]
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16 Wiggly squid or jellyfish with many tentacles. A muscular hydrostat is
17 a biological structure used to move its host about, consisting of mus‐
18 cles with no skeletal support. It performs its hydraulic movement with‐
19 out fluid in a separate compartment, as in a hydrostatic skeleton.
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23 Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a
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27 -window 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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32 Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (0.02 sec‐
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36 Animation speed. 2.0 means twice as fast, 0.5 means half as
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40 Number of squid. 1 - 100. Default: 10.
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43 Head size. 10 - 100. Default: 60.
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46 Number of tentacles. 3 - 100. Default: 40.
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49 Thickness of tentacles. 3 - 40. Default: 18.
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52 Length of tentacles. 10 - 150. Default: 70.
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55 Strength of gravity. 0 - 10.0. Default: 0.5.
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58 Strength of current. 0.0 - 10.0. Default: 0.25.
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61 Coefficient of friction. 0.0 - 0.1. Default: 0.02.
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64 Whether the squid should pulse. Default true.
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67 Render in wireframe instead of solid.
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70 Whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of
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83 http://soulwire.co.uk/experiments/muscular-hydrostats/
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86 Copyright © 2016 by Justin Windle and Jamie Zawinski. Permission to
87 use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documen‐
88 tation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the
89 above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copy‐
90 right notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documenta‐
91 tion. No representations are made about the suitability of this soft‐
92 ware for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or
93 implied warranty.
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96 Justin Windle and Jamie Zawinski.
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