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- PharrSavers
- by Matt Pharr
- 20 August 1992
- (pharr@cs.yale.edu NeXTMail makes me happy)
-
- PharrSavers is a collection of screen savers that I've
- written for Sam Streeper's screen-saver BackSpace. They
- basically fill in some of the areas that needed to be filled
- in with BackSpace bouncing clocks, and all the other basics
- of the screen-saver world. All four of them take advantage
- of the whole interface BackSpace offers to the programmer,
- so maybe they'll be useful to others who have neat ideas
- for 'savers.
-
- DigitalClockView bounces your basic digital clock around
- the screen. You can adjust not only the clock's size and
- speed, but also whether it uses standard AM/PM or military
- time. PatchworkView was the first BackSpace screen-saver
- that I wrote. It grew out of a little Postscript hack I
- was playing with. SnakesView shares the straightforwardness
- of PatchworkView. It's sort of hard to describe, but it's
- similar to one of the neater AfterDark modules. SpheresView
- is my favorite of the bunch. It draws and shades a bunch
- of shaded spheres, with a nice 3-D effect and reasonably
- quick drawing due to the way the spheres are drawn.
-
- ** Note that none of these modules are compatible with the
- first release of BackSpace, due to support for BackSpace's new
- capabilities. You must use the version of BackSpace that
- came with NeXTStep 3.0 with these screen-savers. **
-
- -Matt
-