Bouncing balls for an X windows background.
Known not work to with tvtwm, may not work with other virtual desktop
systems. Works with twm and olwm.
Can take a lot of cpu and X bandwidth.
Alter the Makefile as appropriate and type:
make
To run type:
xballs
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
The program is a bit 'rough round the edges'
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)
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)
Bernard Hatt
bmh@terminus.ericsson.se
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