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- Bouncing balls for an X windows background.
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- Known not work to with tvtwm, may not work with other virtual desktop
- systems. Works with twm and olwm.
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- Can take a lot of cpu and X bandwidth.
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- Alter the Makefile as appropriate and type:
- make
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- To run type:
- xballs
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- Options are:
- -d hostname display on hostname
- -n number number of balls (6 by default)
- -r radius radius of balls
- -c coeff coefficient of restitution (sp?)
- -t percent percentage of balls generated at the to of the screen
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- The program is a bit 'rough round the edges'
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- The balls interact with the mouse pointer, but not with each other (I'm
- sure there is a simple method for this using matrices but I havn't been
- able to find it)
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- The more balls you have, the more cpu power used. (I would suggest a
- maximum of about 6 for a Sun 3 and 12 for a Sun 4)
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- Bernard Hatt
- bmh@terminus.ericsson.se
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