t3d (1)
clock using flying balls to display the time
SYNOPSIS
t3d [ \f2 options\f1 ]...
DESCRIPTION
Time 3D is a clock. It uses flying balls to display the time. This
balls move and wobble around to give you the impression your
graphic workstation with its many XStones is doing something.
t3d uses mouse and keyboard to let you fly through the balls. Hit
S
to speed up,
A
to slow down,
Z
to zoom in and
X
to zoom out.
Use the
left mouse button
to rotate to the left and the
right mouse button
to rotate the view to the right. Use the
middle mouse button
to change the optical axis and the moving direction.
0
(zero) will stop you.
Q
quits.
OPTIONS
AUTHOR
Bernd Paysan
Email: bernd.paysan@gmx.de
Hacked on by jwz@jwz.org for xscreensaver.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Acknowledgement to Georg Acher, who wrote the initial program displaying
balls.
COPYING
Copy, modify, and distribute T3D either under GPL version 2 or newer, or
under the standard MIT/X license notice.
DISCLAIMER
T3D is not related to T3D(tm), the massive parallel Alpha--based
supercomputer from Cray Research. T3D's name was invented in 1991,
years before the project at Cray Research started. There is no
relation from T3D to Cray's T3D, even the balls surrounding T3D on
some posters weren't an inspiration for T3D. I don't know anything
about the other way round.
The programming style of T3D isn't intented as example of good style,
but as example of how a fast prototyped demo may look like. T3D wasn't
created to be useful, it was created to be nice.
KNOWN BUGS
There are no known bugs in T3D. Maybe there are bugs in X. Slight
changes in the T3D sources are known to show these bugs, e.g. if
you remove the (int) casting at the XFillArc x,y,w,h-coordinates...
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