.TH XaoS 6 "16 Oct 2010" "XaoS" "Demos" .SH NAME xaos - Fast interactive real-time fractal zoomer/morpher .SH SYNOPSIS xaos [\fIOPTIONS\fR] .SH DESCRIPTION XaoS is a fast portable real-time interactive fractal zoomer. It displays the Mandelbrot set (among other escape time fractals) and allows you to zoom smoothly into the fractal. Various coloring modes are provided for both the points inside and outside the selected set. In addition, switching between Julia and Mandelbrot fractal types and displaying planes is provided. The first version was a poorly written Mandelbrot viewer by Thomas later modified by Jan to support high frame-rate zooming. Other additions were later made including autopilot (for those of you without driver licenses), palette changing, PNG saving, and fractal inversion. .SH OPTIONS -delay number Delay screen updates (milliseconds) -driver string Select driver -list List available drivers. Then exit -config Print configuration. Then exit -speedtest Test speed of calculation loop. Then exit -threads number Set number of threads (CPUs) to use -pipe string Accept commands from pipe (use "-" for stdin) -maxframerate number Maximal framerate (0 for unlimited - default) Screen size options: Knowledge of exact screen size makes random dot stereogram look better. Also is used for choosing correct view area -screenwidth f.point exact size of screen in centimeters -screenheight f.point exact size of screen in centimeters Use this option in case you use some kind of virtual screen or something similiar that confuses previous options -pixelwidth f.point exact size of one pixel in centimeters -pixelheight f.point exact size of one pixel in centimeters Animation rendering: -render string Render animation into seqence of .png files -basename string Name for .png files (XaoS will add 4 digit number and extension -size string widthxheight -renderimage string 256 or truecolor -renderframerate f.point framerate -antialiasing Perform antialiasing (slow, requires quite lot of memory) -alwaysrecalc Always recalculate whole image (slowes down rendering, increases quality) -rendervectors Render motion vectors (should be used for MPEG encoding) -iframedist number Recommended distance between I frames in pat file (should be used for MPEG encoding) X11 driver options: -display string Select display -size string Select size of window (WIDTHxHEIGHT). -sync Generate sync signals before looking for events. This helps on old and buggy HP-UX X servers. -shared Use shared colormap on pseudocolor display. -usedefault Use default visual if autodetection causes troubles. -nomitshm Disable MITSHM extension. -fullscreen Enable fullscreen mode. -windowid number Use selected window. -window-id number Use selected window. -root Use root window. Command line options only -print_menus print menus specifications of all menus -print_menu string print menu specification -xshl_print_menustring print menu specification in xshl format -xshl_print_menus print all menu specifications in xshl format -print_dialog string print dialog specification File -loadpos input_file Load -savepos output_file Save -record output_file Record -play input_file Replay -saveimg output_file Save image -loadexample Load random example -savecfg Save configuration Fractal -perturbation real_number real_number Perturbation -initstate Reset to defaults -julia on|off Julia mode -view real_number real_number real_number real_number View -angle real_number Set angle -plane integer Set plane -incoloring integer Inside coloring mode -outcoloring integer Outside coloring mode -intcoloring integer Inside truecolor coloring mode -outtcoloring integer Outside truecolor coloring mode -juliaseed real_number real_number Julia seed Calculation -periodicity Periodicity checking -maxiter integer Iterations -bailout real_number Bailout -fastjulia Fast julia mode -range integer Solid guessing range Filters -edge Edge detection -edge2 Edge detection2 -threed Pseudo 3d -starfield Starfield -stereogram Random dot stereogram -interlace Interlace filter -blur Motionblur -emboss Emboss -palettef Palette emulator -anti Antialiasing -truecolor Truecolor emulator UI -letterspersec integer Letters per second -autopilot Autopilot -inhibittextoutput VJ mode -recalculate Recalculate -interrupt Interrupt -speed real_number Zooming speed -fixedstep Fixed step -nogui Disable XaoS's builtin GUI -status Status -ministatus Ministatus Misc -playstr string Play string -text string Display text -color white|black|red Color -textposition left|center|right top|middle|bottom Text position -message string Message Help -help Help Formulae -mandel Mandelbrot -mandel3 Mandelbrot^3 -mandel4 Mandelbrot^4 -mandel5 Mandelbrot^5 -mandel6 Mandelbrot^6 -newton Newton -newton4 Newton^4 -barnsley Barnsley1 -barnsley2 Barnsley2 -barnsley3 Barnsley3 -octal Octal -phoenix Phoenix -magnet Magnet -magnet2 Magnet2 More formulae -trice Triceratops -catseye Catseye -mbar Mandelbar -mlambda Lambda -manowar Manowar -spider Spider -sier Sierpinski -carpet S.Carpet -koch Koch Snowflake -hornflake Spidron hornflake Palette -defpalette Default palette -randompalette Random palette -palette integer integer integer Custom palette -cycling Color cycling -cyclingspeed integer Color cycling speed -shiftpalette integer Shift palette Dynamic resolution -fastmode zero|never|animation|new|allways Dynamic resolution mode Rotation -rotationspeed real_number Rotation speed -autorotate on|off Automatic rotation -fastrotate on|off Fast rotation mode Quit -quit Exit now .SH DETAILS This manual page is obsolete and no longer maintained. Please read the full documentation running XaoS. You can start it typing 'xaos'. (Press 'h' 3 times to get into the help system.) .P In addition, .B xaos --help should give a detailed list about the command line options.