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6 dymaxionmap - An animation of Buckminster Fuller's unwrapped icosahe‐
7 dral globe.
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10 dymaxionmap [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--win‐
11 dow] [--root] [--window-id number] [--delay number] [--speed ratio]
12 [--no-wander] [--no-roll] [--no-stars] [--no-grid] [--flat] [--satel‐
13 lite] [--image file] [--image2 file] [--frames number] [--wireframe]
14 [--fps]
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17 Buckminster Fuller's map of the Earth projected onto the surface of an
18 unfolded icosahedron. It depicts the Earth's continents as one island,
19 or nearly contiguous land masses.
20 This screen saver animates the progression of the dusk terminator
22 across the flattened globe. It includes both satellite and flat-colored
23 map imagery, and can load and convert other Equirectangular-projected
24 maps.
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27 --visual visual
28 Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a
29 visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific
30 visual.
31 --window
33 Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
34 --root Draw on the root window.
36 --window-id number
38 Draw on the specified window.
39 --delay number
41 Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (0.02 sec‐
42 onds).
43 --speed ratio
45 Speed of the animation. 0.5 means half as fast, 2 means twice
46 as fast.
47 --wander | --no-wander
49 Whether the object should wander around the screen. Default
50 yes.
51 --roll | --no-roll
53 Whether the object should roll randomly. Default yes.
54 --stars | --no-stars
56 Whether to display a star field. Default yes.
57 --grid | --no-grid
59 Whether to overlay a latitude/longitude grid over the map. De‐
60 fault yes.
61 --flat Display a flat-colored map of the Earth. This is the default.
63 --satellite
65 Display a day-time satellite map of the Earth.
66 --image file
68 An image to use for the day-time map.
69 --image2 file
71 An image to use for the night-time map. The two images can be
72 the same: the night-time one will be darkened.
73 --frames number
75 The number of frames in the day/night animation. Default 720.
76 Larger numbers are smoother, but use more memory. The
77 day/night animation happens if image2 is set, or if frames is
78 greater than 1.
79 --wireframe | --no-wireframe
81 Render in wireframe instead of solid.
82 --fps | --no-fps
84 Whether to show a frames-per-second display at the bottom of
85 the screen.
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88 DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
89 XENVIRONMENT
91 to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global
92 resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
93 XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW
95 The window ID to use with --root.
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98 X(1), xscreensaver(1) glplanet(6x)
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101 Copyright © 2016-2018 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, mod‐
102 ify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any
103 purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copy‐
104 right notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice
105 and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No rep‐
106 resentations are made about the suitability of this software for any
107 purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
108 "Dymaxion Map" and "The Fuller Projection Map" are trademarks of The
110 Buckminster Fuller Institute.
111 The original Dymaxion Map image is copyright © 1982 by The Buckminster
113 Fuller Institute. (This program does not use their imagery, only simi‐
114 lar trigonometry.)
115 The Dymaxion Map was covered by now-expired US Patent 2,393,676
117 (Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1946).
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120 Jamie Zawinski.
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