Manual pages
Scope: XScreenSaver manual.
[ Alias ↣ ] Name (section) | Brief |
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abstractile(6x) | Draw abstract mosaic patterns of interlocking tiles. |
anemone(6x) | Wiggling tentacles. |
anemotaxis(6x) | Directional search on a plane. |
antinspect(6x) | Ant model inspection screenhack. |
antmaze(6x) | Ant maze walker. |
antspotlight(6x) | Ant spotlight screenhack. |
apollonian(6x) | Descartes Circle Theorem. |
apple2(6x) | Apple ][ display emulator. |
atlantis(6x) | Draw swimming sharks, whales, and dolphins. |
attraction(6x) | Interactions of opposing forces. |
atunnel(6x) | Hypnotic GL tunnel journey. |
barcode(6x) | Draws a random sequence of barcodes for the products you enjoy. |
binaryring(6x) | A system of path tracing particles evolves continuously from an initial creation. |
blaster(6x) | Simulation of space combat. |
blinkbox(6x) | Shows a ball inside a box. |
blitspin(6x) | Rotate a bitmap in an interesting way. |
blocktube(6x) | Draws a swirling, falling tunnel of reflective slabs. |
boing(6x) | Draws a bouncing ball like the ancient Amiga demo. |
bouboule(6x) | Draws spinning 3D blobs. |
bouncingcow(6x) | A happy cow on a trampoline in 3D. Moo. |
boxed(6x) | Draws a box full of 3D bouncing balls that explode. |
boxfit(6x) | Fills space with a gradient of growing boxes or circles. |
braid(6x) | Draws random color-cycling braids around a circle. |
bsod(6x) | Blue Screen of Death emulator. |
bubble3d(6x) | 3d rising bubbles. |
bumps(6x) | Move distorting spotlight around desktop. |
cage(6x) | Escher's impossible cage, for xscreensaver. |
carousel(6x) | Displays multiple images rotating in a circular formation. |
ccurve(6x) | Self-similar linear fractals. |
celtic(6x) | Draws celtic cross-stich patterns. |
circuit(6x) | Animates a number of 3D electronic components. |
cityflow(6x) | Waves of boxes. |
cloudlife(6x) | A cellular automaton based on Conway's Life. |
companioncube(6x) | A vital aparatus. |
compass(6x) | Draws a spinning compass. |
coral(6x) | Simulates coral growth, albeit somewhat slowly. |
crackberg(6x) | Lose your way wandering some height fields, and enjoy candy. |
crystal(6x) | Kaleidescope. |
cube21(6x) | Animates the Cube 21 puzzle. |
cubenetic(6x) | Cubist 3D undulating blob. |
cubestack(6x) | An endless stack of unfolding, translucent cubes. |
cubestorm(6x) | A series of 3D boxes that fill space. |
cubetwist(6x) | A series of nested cubes rotate and slide recursively. |
cubicgrid(6x) | Rotating 3D lattice seen from inside. |
cwaves(6x) | Languid sinusoidal colors. |
cynosure(6x) | Gentle overlapping squares screen saver. |
dangerball(6x) | A 3D ball that periodically extrudes spikes. Ouch!. |
decayscreen(6x) | Make a screen meltdown. |
deco(6x) | Draw tacky 70s basement wall panelling. |
deluxe(6x) | Pulsing sequence of stars, circles, and lines. |
demon(6x) | Cellular automaton. |
discoball(6x) | A dusty, dented disco ball screen saver. |
discrete(6x) | Discrete map iterative function fractal systems. |
distort(6x) | Distort the content of the screen in interesting ways. |
drift(6x) | Draws drifting recursive fractal cosmic flames. |
dymaxionmap(6x) | An animation of Buckminster Fuller's unwrapped icosahedral globe. |
endgame(6x) | Endgame chess screensaver. |
energystream(6x) | A flow of particles which form an energy stream. |
engine(6x) | Draws a 3D four-stroke engine. |
epicycle(6x) | Draws a point moving around a circle which moves around a cicle which... |
eruption(6x) | Eruption of pieces of hot volcanic rock. |
euler2d(6x) | Two dimensional incompressible inviscid fluid flow. |
extrusion(6x) | Various rotating extruded shapes. |
fadeplot(6x) | Draws a waving ribbon following a sinusoidal path. |
fiberlamp(6x) | Fiber Optic Lamp. |
fireworkx(6x) | Pyrotechnic explosions eye-candy. |
flame(6x) | Draw weird cosmic fractals. |
flipflop(6x) | Draws a grid of 3D squares that change positions. |
flipscreen3d(6x) | Rotates an image of the screen through 3 dimensions. |
fliptext(6x) | Draws pages of text whose lines transparently flip around. |
flow(6x) | Strange attractors. |
fluidballs(6x) | The physics of bouncing balls. |
flurry(6x) | A colorful particle system. |
flyingtoasters(6x) | 3d space-age jet-powered flying toasters (and toast). |
fontglide(6x) | Characters float onto the screen to form words. |
fuzzyflakes(6x) | Falling snowflakes/flower shapes. |
galaxy(6x) | Draws spinning galaxies. |
gears(6x) | Draw interlocking gears, for xscreensaver. |
geodesic(6x) | Animates a mesh geodesic sphere. |
geodesicgears(6x) | Gears on the surface of a sphere. |
gflux(6x) | Rippling surface graphics hack. |
glblur(6x) | 3D radial blur texture fields. |
glcells(6x) | Growing cells graphics hack. |
gleidescope(6x) | A tiled OpenGL kaleidescope. |
glhanoi(6x) | OpenGL Towers of Hanoi. |
glknots(6x) | Generates some twisting 3d knot patterns. |
glmatrix(6x) | Simulates the title sequence effect of the movie. |
glplanet(6x) | Rotating 3d texture-mapped planet. |
glschool(6x) | A 3D schooling simulation. |
glslideshow(6x) | Slideshow of images using smooth zooming and fades. |
glsnake(6x) | OpenGL enhanced Rubik's Snake cyclewaster. |
gltext(6x) | Draws text spinning around in 3D. |
goop(6x) | Squishy transparent oil and bubble screenhack. |
grav(6x) | Draws a simple orbital simulation. |
greynetic(6x) | Draw random stippled/color rectangles. |
halftone(6x) | Simple halftone pattern of moving mass points. |
halo(6x) | Draw circular patterns. |
helix(6x) | Draw helical string-art patterns. |
hexadrop(6x) | Shrinking hexagons. |
hexstrut(6x) | A grid of hexagons composed of rotating Y-shaped struts. |
hilbert(6x) | 3D Hilbert fractal. |
hopalong(6x) | Draw real plane fractals. |
hydrostat(6x) | Wiggly squid or jellyfish with many tentacles. |
hypertorus(6x) | Draws a hypertorus that rotates in 4d. |
hypnowheel(6x) | Draws overlapping, translucent spiral patterns. |
ifs(6x) | Draws spinning, colliding iterated-function-system images. |
imsmap(6x) | Generate fractal maps. |
interaggregate(6x) | Visualize the momentary and aggregate intersections between slowly moving circles. |
interference(6x) | Decaying sinusoidal waves. |
intermomentary(6x) | Visualize the momentary and aggregate intersections between slowly moving circles. |
jigglypuff(6x) | Save your screen by tormenting your eyes. |
jigsaw(6x) | Permute an image like a jigsaw puzzle. |
juggler3d(6x) | Juggling man screen saver. |
julia(6x) | Draws spinning, animating julia-set fractals. |
kaleidescope(6x) | Rotating line segments. |
kaleidocycle(6x) | Draws twistable rings of tetrahedra. |
klein(6x) | Draws a 4d Klein bottle. |
kumppa(6x) | Spiraling, spinning, splashes of color rush toward the screen. |
lament(6x) | Animates the Lament Configuration. |
lavalite(6x) | 3D OpenGL simulation of a Lavalite. |
lcdscrub(6x) | Attempt to repair burn-in on LCD screens. |
ljlatest(6x) | Prints the most recent public posts on livejournal.com. |
lockward(6x) | Rotating spinning color-cycling things. |
loop(6x) | Cellular automaton. |
maze(6x) | An automated X11 demo repeatedly creating and solving a random maze. |
memscroller(6x) | Scrolls a dump of its own RAM across the screen. |
menger(6x) | 3D menger gasket fractal. |
metaballs(6x) | Draws 2D metaballs. |
mirrorblob(6x) | Draws a wobbly blob that distorts the image behind it. |
moebius(6x) | Escher's Moebuis Strip II, with ants. |
moebiusgears(6x) | Draw a moebius strip of interlocking gears. |
moire(6x) | Draw circular interference patterns. |
moire2(6x) | Circular interference patterns. |
molecule(6x) | Draws 3D molecular structures. |
morph3d(6x) | 3d morphing objects. |
mountain(6x) | Random 3D plots that look vaguely mountainous. |
munch(6x) | Munching squares. |
nerverot(6x) | Induces edginess in the viewer. |
noof(6x) | Draw rotatey patterns. |
noseguy(6x) | A little guy with a big nose wanders around being witty. |
pacman(6x) | Simulates a game of Pac-Man on a randomly-created level. |
pedal(6x) | Pretty geometric picture program. |
penetrate(6x) | Simulates a classic arcade shooting game. |
penrose(6x) | Draws quasiperiodic tilings. |
petri(6x) | Simulates mold growing in a petri dish. |
phosphor(6x) | Simulates an old terminal with long-sustain phosphor. |
photopile(6x) | Displays multiple images in a periodically shuffled pile. |
piecewise(6x) | Lots of moving circles intersecting in interesting ways. |
pinion(6x) | Draws a scrolling sequence of interconnected gears. |
pipes(6x) | Fill the screen with a plumbing system. |
polyhedra(6x) | Draws the 80 uniform polyhedra and their duals. |
polyominoes(6x) | Fill a rectangle with irregularly-shaped blocks. |
polytopes(6x) | Draws one of the six regular 4d polytopes rotating in 4d. |
pong(6x) | Pong Home Video Game Emulator. |
projectiveplane(6x) | Draws a 4d embedding of the real projective plane. |
providence(6x) | Eye in glory screenhack. |
pulsar(6x) | Intersecting planes, alpha blending, fog, and textures. |
pyro(6x) | Simulate fireworks. |
qix(6x) | Bounce colored lines around a window. |
quasicrystal(6x) | Aperiodic plane tilings. |
queens(6x) | N queens screensaver. |
raverhoop(6x) | Simulates an LED hula hoop in a dark room. |
rd-bomb(6x) | Reaction/diffusion textures. |
ripples(6x) | Interference patterns. |
rocks(6x) | Animation of flying through an asteroid field. |
romanboy(6x) | Draws a 3d immersion of the real projective plane that smoothly deforms between the Roman surface. |
rorschach(6x) | Simulate ink-blot patterns. |
rotzoomer(6x) | Animated rotations and scalings of portions of the screen. |
rubik(6x) | Screen saver that solves Rubik's Cube. |
rubikblocks(6x) | Animates the Rubik's Mirror Blocks puzzle. |
sballs(6x) | Draws balls spinning like crazy in GL. |
shadebobs(6x) | Oscillating vapor trails. |
sierpinski(6x) | Draws Sierpinski triangle fractals. |
sierpinski3d(6x) | 3D Sierpinski triangle fractal. |
skytentacles(6x) | 3D tentacles from the sky!. |
slidescreen(6x) | Permute the screen image like an 8-puzzle. |
slip(6x) | Sucks your screen into a jet engine. |
sonar(6x) | Display a sonar scope. |
speedmine(6x) | Simulates speeding down a rocky mineshaft, or a funky dancing worm. |
spheremonics(6x) | 3d spherical harmonic shapes. |
splitflap(6x) | A simulation of a split-flap electromechanical display. |
splodesic(6x) | K A geodesic sphere experiences a series of eruptions. |
spotlight(6x) | Move spotlight around desktop. |
sproingies(6x) | Q-Bert meets Marble Madness!. |
squiral(6x) | Square spirals screensaver. |
stairs(6x) | Escher's infinite staircase. |
starfish(6x) | Radially-symmetric throbbing colormap-hacking graphics demo. |
starwars(6x) | Draws a perspective text crawl, like at the beginning of the movie. |
stonerview(6x) | 3D undulating ribbons of squares. |
strange(6x) | Draws strange attractors. |
substrate(6x) | Grow crystal-like lines on a computational substrate. |
superquadrics(6x) | Morphing 3d shapes. |
surfaces(6x) | Draws some interesting 3d parametric surfaces. |
swirl(6x) | Draws swirly color-cycling patterns. |
tangram(6x) | Watch the computer solve tangram puzzles. |
tessellimage(6x) | Converts an image to triangles using Delaunay tessellation. |
thornbird(6x) | Bird in a Thornbush fractal. |
timetunnel(6x) | Plasma tunnels fade in and out. |
topblock(6x) | A 3D world of falling blocks that build up and up. |
triangle(6x) | Random mountains using iterative subdivision of triangles. |
tronbit(6x) | Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes. |
truchet(6x) | Draws curved or angular Truchet patterns. |
twang(6x) | Pluck pieces of the screen. |
unicrud(6x) | Bounces a random Unicode character on the screen. |
unknownpleasures(6x) | An animation of the signal from the pulsar PSR B1919+21. |
vermiculate(6x) | To move in a worm-like manner. |
vidwhacker(6x) | Grab images and apply random filters to them. |
voronoi(6x) | Draws a randomly-colored Voronoi tessellation. |
wander(6x) | Colorful random-walk. |
webcollage(6x) | Decorate the screen with random images from the web. |
whirlwindwarp(6x) | Crazy moving stars. |
winduprobot(6x) | Screen saver. |
wormhole(6x) | Animation of flying through a wormhole. |
xanalogtv(6x) | Simulate reception on an old analog TV set. |
xflame(6x) | Draws animated flames. |
xjack(6x) | All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. |
xlyap(6x) | Display an array of Lyapunov exponents graphically. |
xmatrix(6x) | Simulates the computer displays from the movie. |
xrayswarm(6x) | Swarms with color trails. |
xscreensaver(1) | Extensible screen saver and screen locking framework. |
xscreensaver-command(1) | Control a running xscreensaver process. |
xscreensaver-demo(1) | Interactively control the background xscreensaver daemon. |
xscreensaver-getimage(1) | Put some randomly-selected image on the root window. |
xscreensaver-getimage-file(1) | Put a randomly-selected image on the root window. |
xscreensaver-getimage-video(1) | Put a video frame on the root window. |
xscreensaver-gl-helper(1) | Figure out which X visual to use for GL programs. |
xscreensaver-text(1) | Prints some text to stdout, for use by screen savers. |
xspirograph(6x) | Simulates the rotation of a disk inside a circular rim. |
zoom(6x) | Wander around magnified desktop. |