NAME
       XaoS - Fast real-time fractal zoomer

SYNOPSIS
       xaos [options]

DESCRIPTION
       XaoS  is  a  real-time interactive fractal zoomer for DOS,
       Plan9, X11 and SVGAlib but it can be easily ported to  all
       architectures where graphics library and _GOOD_ optimizing
       ANSI c compiler (i.e. gcc) is available.  It displays  the
       Mandelbrot  set  (among  other  escape  time fractals) and
       allows you zoom smoothly into the fractal.  Various color-
       ing modes are provided for both the points inside and out-
       side the selected  set.  In  addition,  switching  between
       Julia  and  Mandelbrot fractal types and displaying planes
       is provided. The first version was a poorly  written  Man-
       delbrot  view  by  Thomas later modified by Jan to support
       high frame-rate zooming. Other additions were  later  made
       including  autopilot  (for  those  of  you without drivers
       licenses),  palette  changing,  GIF  saving,  and  fractal
       inversion.  More informations should be obtained by press-
       ing 'h' in XaoS

OPTIONS
       XaoS' options should be divided into following parts:

        Ugly interface options
              This options are common for  all  installations  of
              XaoS  because  only  interface available for now is
              ugly interface.

        Driver selection options
              This options lets you choose graphics driver.

        Driver depended options
              This options depends on available drivers. In  this
              manual page are described just drivers for Unix and
              Linux.

UGLY INTERFACE OPTIONS
       Following options let you  specify  with  fractal  formula
       will be used as default and other ugly interface settings:

       -mandel
              Mandelbrot set fractal(default)

       -mandel3
              Mandelbrot set power 3 fractal

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       -mandel4
              Mandelbrot set power 4 fractal

       -mandel5
              Mandelbrot set power 5 fractal

       -mandel6
              Mandelbrot set power 6 fractal

       -octo  Octal fractal

       -newton
              Newton fractal

       -barnsley
              Barnsley fractal

       -phoenix
              Start with Phoenix fractal

       -autopilot
              Enable autopilot

       -iter  number  Default number of iterations

       -speed Zooming speed (default is 1)

DRIVER SELECTION OPTIONS
       Every xaos installation has  some  graphics  driver.  This
       depends  on used operating system, available libraries and
       configuration. XaoS by default tries to enable best avail-
       able  driver.  So  it  for  example in Linux case it tests
       drivers in following order:
       SVGAlib
       X11
       curses
       Following options are used to control this operation:

       -driver
              This options lets you specify  driver  to  use  and
              avoid autodection.

       -list  List available drivers and then exit.

SVGALIB DRIVER OPTIONS
       This  driver  is  available just for Linux/Intel and maybe
       Linux/alpha platforms. It lets XaoS to  work  full-screen.
       It  looks  much better that small X11 window, because XaoS
       can choose resolution. At the other hand it requires  root
       privileges.   If you want to start XaoS as normal user you
       need to login as root first and than do:
       chown root xaos

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       chmod +s xaos
       In  case  of  incorrectly  configured  SVGAlib  (see  file
       /etc/vga/libvga.conf or /usr/local/lib/libvga.conf) it can
       crash system. Following options are available:

       -mode  Select graphics mode(same number as in  interactive
              menu)

X11 DRIVER OPTIONS
       This  driver  is available on most Unix platforms. It sup-
       ports MIT shm extension but works well (but slower)  on  X
       servers   without   it.   Requires  8bpp  pseudo-color  or
       16,24,32 bpp true-color visual. Following options are sup-
       ported:

       -size  Select size of window (WIDTHxHEIGHT)

       -sync  This  fixes troubles with one old HP-UX R4 X server
              - it did not generated keys and mouse events  while
              it was displaying. So I added this flag that forces
              sync before reading evets. It takes some time to  X
              server to generate events.

CURSES DRIVER OPTIONS
       This  driver uses text only output so it works on all text
       terminals that are curses capable. (most modern one.  Like
       vt100)  This  is  one  of most powerful drivers. Following
       options should be used to tune xaos setting for your  ter-
       minal:

       -normal
              Enable use of normal text

       -nonormal
              Disable use of normal text

       -dim   Enable use of dim attribute(half bright)

       -nodim Disable use of dim attribute(half bright)

       -bold  Enable use of bold attribute(double bright)

       -nobold
              Disable use of bold attribute(double bright)

       -boldfont
              Enable use of bold attribute(bold font)

       -noboldfont
              Disable use of bold attribute(bold font)

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       -reverse
              Enable use of reversed text

       -noreverse
              Disable use of reversed text

       -fontheight
              Set font height(8 or 16)

BUGS
       Not    known    for    now.   See   xaos   home-page   at:
       http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS for list  with  solu-
       tions.

AUTHORS
       Jan Hubicka (hubicka@paru.cas.cz)
       smail:
       Jan Hubicka
       Dukelskych bojovniku 1944
       Tabor
       39003
       Czech Republic
       Thomas Marsh (amadeus@bga.com - not available for now..)

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