Xwave Version 2.0 February 4, 1991 Xwave plots a perspective projection of a plane grid oscillating in three-space in real time. You can select the size of the grid, a forcing function to apply (and where to apply it), and what wave propagation model to use. You can display a plot of the velocity of the points in the grid as well as the position. The original xwave was written by Mike Friedman (mikef@umbc3.umbc.edu) and Paul Riddle (paulr@umbc3.umbc.edu) and posted in January 1991. It was tested under Ultrix 4.0, HP-UX 7.0, and SunOS 4.0.3, and worked on both X11R4 and X11R3 servers. This version of xwave contains significant enhancements by Jim McBeath (jimmc@hisoft.uucp), but has only been tested on a Sun4 running X11R4. The program works best on a risc workstation; if you have something slower, try using the -rows and -cols command line options. 15 by 15 works pretty well on slower machines. While the program is running, you can use the middle mouse button to move the plot around, and the left and right mouse buttons to zoom it in and out. There are many single-key commands you can enter, such as the 'r' command to toggle continuous run mode, and space to step through one generation. Users with color displays can specify the -stereo option. Be sure to have your 3-d glasses ready (if you don't have any, you can make them out of red and blue cellophane :-). The effect is pretty interesting. Try the -demo switch for a quick tour (e.g. "xwave -demo 4"). There are a many more options; these are all described in the man page. Inquiries, bug reports, etc. should be directed to paulr@umbc3.umbc.edu. Xwave may be freely copied and redistributed in any form, providing the authors' names stay with the source code. Let us know if you like it, improve it, etc. Original Authors: Mike Friedman (mikef@umbc3.umbc.edu) Paul Riddle (paulr@umbc3.umbc.edu) Modified by: Jim McBeath (jimmc@hisoft.uucp) N.B. xwave can be used with xscreensaver-1.26
