Manual pages
Scope: XScreenSaver manual.
| [ Alias ↣ ] Name (section) | Brief |
|---|---|
| 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. |