Overview of Colored Smoke

Documentation / Colored Smoke

• Overview of Colored Smoke
  • What It Does
  • What It Is Not
• Using Colored Smoke
  • Under CySaver
  • Windowed On The Desk
  • Fullscreen Without CySaver
  • Embed And Prefs Preview
  • Colour Looks
• Command Line
  • Window And Saver
  • Bodies And Physics
  • Smoke And Colour
• Copyright

Overview of Colored Smoke

Colored Smoke (binary icosmoke) is a screen hack: solid icosahedra with blended red, green, and blue smoke trails. It runs under CySaver or as a desk window. Book directory is Icosmoke; the face name is Colored Smoke.

Open this book from Help Books as "Icosmoke", or:

cyhelp --book Icosmoke --topic overview

The Applications page lists it as: Screen hack.

What It Does

• Drops and bounces a pack of solid icosahedra
• Paints blended smoke in one to three pure colour channels
• Offers greyscale and 1-bit Bayer halftone looks
• Can tint bodies from the desk scheme or a fixed colour
• Embeds for CySaver preview; goes fullscreen for idle and Test

Companion hacks: Icosahedra and Xray Agent. CySaver owns idle timing and lock; this book covers the hack itself.

What It Is Not

• Not the CySaver preferences panel
• Not a paint or particle editor; flags set the look, then it runs
• Not a Motif prefs app of its own (options live in CySaver's hack frame)

In This Book

• Using Colored Smoke -- CySaver, windowed, fullscreen, embed
• Command Line -- bodies, smoke, colour, and window flags
• Copyright