jef@HELIOS.EE.LBL.GOV (Jef Poskanzer and Craig Leres) (08/16/88)
Xphoon sets the X root window to display a picture of the moon in its current phase, including the partial lighting of the dark side by reflected earthlight. The original motivation for this program was that xsetroot was TOO SLOW. Loading a full-screen bitmap took about 15 seconds. We made a trivial program that had fullmoon.bitmap compiled in, and it ran in less than a second. (And incidentally, the executable was smaller than fullmoon.bitmap.) Then later we came up with the cheapmoons, the phase hacking, and finally the earthlight. Xphoon can be FTPed from rtsg.ee.lbl.gov (128.3.254.68) as x10_xphoon.tar.Z. Remember to use binary mode when you retrieve it. For those who can't FTP, we have mailed it off to the moderator of comp.sources.x. An X11 version will appear eventually. The conversion is trivial, but we haven't bothered to do it yet. We don't use X11 here yet because it is TOO SLOW.
koblas@mips.COM (David Koblas) (08/17/88)
In article <8808160523.AA01951@helios.ee.lbl.gov> jef@HELIOS.EE.LBL.GOV (Jef Poskanzer and Craig Leres) writes: >An X11 version will appear eventually. The conversion is trivial, but we >haven't bothered to do it yet. We don't use X11 here yet because it is TOO >SLOW. It is trivial, and I have patches that I'll mail out (sans changed bitmaps). -- name : David Koblas place: MIPS Computers Systems phone: 408-991-0287 uucp : {ames,decwrl,pyramid,wyse}!mips!koblas quote: "You're right vince, when you hit a brick wall while you're going 50, your head will fit in the glove compartment."