1flame(6x) XScreenSaver manual flame(6x)
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6 flame - draw weird cosmic fractals
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9 flame [--display host:display.screen] [--foreground color] [--back‐
10 ground color] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number][--mono] [--in‐
11 stall] [--visual visual] [--colors integer] [--iterations integer]
12 [--points integer] [--delay microseconds] [--delay2 microseconds]
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16 The flame program generates colorful fractal displays.
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19 flame accepts the following options:
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22 Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
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32 Install a private colormap for the window.
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35 Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a
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40 How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 64.
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43 How many fractals to generate. Default 25.
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46 How many pixels to draw for each fractal. Default 10000.
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49 How long we should wait between drawing each fractal. Default
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53 How long we should wait before clearing the screen when each
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62 to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global
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72 Copyright © 1991 by Patrick J. Naughton
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74 Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
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76 vided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
77 both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in sup‐
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83 Ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by Jamie Zawinski
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