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section 6x — Games
- abstractile(6x) draw abstract mosaic patterns of interlocking tiles
- aiDummy(6x) Computer players for xfrisk
- anemone(6x) wiggling tentacles.
- anemotaxis(6x) directional search on a plane.
- antinspect(6x) ant model inspection screenhack
- antmaze(6x) ant maze walker
- antspotlight(6x) ant spotlight screenhack
- apollonian(6x) Descartes Circle Theorem.
- apple2(6x) Apple ][ display emulator
- atlantis(6x) draw swimming sharks, whales, and dolphins.
- attraction(6x) interactions of opposing forces
- atunnel(6x) hypnotic GL tunnel journey
- barcode(6x) draws a random sequence of barcodes for the products you enjoy
- beats(6x) create offset beating figures
- binaryhorizon(6x) A system of path tracing particles evolves continuously.
- binaryring(6x) A system of path tracing particles evolves continuously from an initial creation.
- blaster(6x) simulation of space combat
- blinkbox(6x) shows a ball inside a box.
- blitspin(6x) rotate a bitmap in an interesting way
- blocktube(6x) draws a swirling, falling tunnel of reflective slabs
- boing(6x) draws a bouncing ball like the ancient Amiga demo
- bouboule(6x) draws spinning 3D blobs
- bouncingcow(6x) a happy cow on a trampoline in 3D. Moo.
- boxed(6x) draws a box full of 3D bouncing balls that explode.
- boxfit(6x) fills space with a gradient of growing boxes or circles.
- braid(6x) draws random color-cycling braids around a circle
- bsod(6x) Blue Screen of Death emulator
- bubble3d(6x) 3d rising bubbles.
- bumps(6x) move distorting spotlight around desktop
- cage(6x) Escher's impossible cage, for xscreensaver.
- carousel(6x) displays multiple images rotating in a circular formation
- ccurve(6x) self-similar linear fractals.
- celtic(6x) draws celtic cross-stich patterns
- chompytower(6x) a tree with teeth.
- circuit(6x) animates a number of 3D electronic components.
- cityflow(6x) waves of boxes.
- cloudlife(6x) a cellular automaton based on Conway's Life
- companioncube(6x) a vital aparatus.
- compass(6x) draws a spinning compass.
- coral(6x) simulates coral growth, albeit somewhat slowly.
- covid19(6x) the most 2020 of all screen savers.
- crackberg(6x) Lose your way wandering some height fields, and enjoy candy.
- crumbler(6x) voronoi divisions of a sphere.
- crystal(6x) kaleidescope.
- cube21(6x) animates the Cube 21 puzzle
- cubenetic(6x) cubist 3D undulating blob.
- cubestack(6x) An endless stack of unfolding, translucent cubes.
- cubestorm(6x) a series of 3D boxes that fill space
- cubetwist(6x) A series of nested cubes rotate and slide recursively.
- cubicgrid(6x) rotating 3D lattice seen from inside
- cubocteversion(6x) Displays a cuboctahedron eversion.
- cwaves(6x) languid sinusoidal colors
- cynosure(6x) gentle overlapping squares screen saver.
- dangerball(6x) a 3D ball that periodically extrudes spikes. Ouch!
- decayscreen(6x) make a screen meltdown.
- deco(6x) draw tacky 70s basement wall panelling
- deepstars(6x) screen saver.
- deluxe(6x) pulsing sequence of stars, circles, and lines.
- demon(6x) cellular automaton.
- discoball(6x) A dusty, dented disco ball screen saver.
- discrete(6x) discrete map iterative function fractal systems.
- distort(6x) distort the content of the screen in interesting ways
- drift(6x) draws drifting recursive fractal cosmic flames
- droste(6x) screen saver.
- dymaxionmap(6x) An animation of Buckminster Fuller's unwrapped icosahedral globe.
- endgame(6x) endgame chess screensaver
- energystream(6x) a flow of particles which form an energy stream
- engine(6x) draws a 3D four-stroke engine.
- epicycle(6x) draws a point moving around a circle which moves around a cicle which...
- eruption(6x) eruption of pieces of hot volcanic rock
- esper(6x) Enhance 224 to 176. Go right. Enhance 57 19. Track 45 left.
- etruscanvenus(6x) Draws a 3d immersion of a Klein bottle that smoothly deforms between the Etruscan Venus surface, the Roman surface, the Boy surface surface, and the Ida surface.
- euler2d(6x) two dimensional incompressible inviscid fluid flow.
- extrusion(6x) various rotating extruded shapes.
- fadeplot(6x) draws a waving ribbon following a sinusoidal path.
- fiberlamp(6x) Fiber Optic Lamp
- filmleader(6x) screen saver.
- fireworkx(6x) pyrotechnic explosions eye-candy.
- flame(6x) draw weird cosmic fractals
- flipflop(6x) draws a grid of 3D squares that change positions
- flipscreen3d(6x) rotates an image of the screen through 3 dimensions.
- fliptext(6x) draws pages of text whose lines transparently flip around
- flow(6x) strange attractors.
- fluidballs(6x) the physics of bouncing balls.
- flurry(6x) a colorful particle system
- flyingtoasters(6x) 3d space-age jet-powered flying toasters (and toast)
- fontglide(6x) characters float onto the screen to form words
- friskserver(6x) network risk board-game server
- fuzzyflakes(6x) falling snowflakes/flower shapes
- galaxy(6x) draws spinning galaxies
- gears(6x) draw interlocking gears, for xscreensaver.
- geodesic(6x) animates a mesh geodesic sphere.
- geodesicgears(6x) gears on the surface of a sphere.
- gflux(6x) rippling surface graphics hack
- gibson(6x) Hacking the Gibson screen saver.
- glblur(6x) 3D radial blur texture fields
- glcells(6x) growing cells graphics hack
- gleidescope(6x) a tiled OpenGL kaleidescope
- glhanoi(6x) OpenGL Towers of Hanoi
- glitchpeg(6x) glitched image screen saver.
- glknots(6x) generates some twisting 3d knot patterns
- glmatrix(6x) simulates the title sequence effect of the movie
- glplanet(6x) rotating 3d texture-mapped planet.
- glschool(6x) a 3D schooling simulation
- glslideshow(6x) slideshow of images using smooth zooming and fades
- glsnake(6x) OpenGL enhanced Rubik's Snake cyclewaster.
- gltext(6x) draws text spinning around in 3D
- goop(6x) squishy transparent oil and bubble screenhack
- grav(6x) draws a simple orbital simulation
- gravitywell(6x) spaaaaace.
- greynetic(6x) draw random stippled/color rectangles
- gtkballs(6x) A simple logic game
- halftone(6x) simple halftone pattern of moving mass points
- halo(6x) draw circular patterns
- handsy(6x) some hands.
- headroom(6x) a twitchy head.
- helix(6x) draw helical string-art patterns
- hexadrop(6x) shrinking hexagons.
- hexstrut(6x) a grid of hexagons composed of rotating Y-shaped struts.
- hextrail(6x) screen saver.
- hilbert(6x) 3D Hilbert fractal.
- hopalong(6x) draw real plane fractals
- hydrostat(6x) Wiggly squid or jellyfish with many tentacles.
- hypertorus(6x) Draws a hypertorus that rotates in 4d
- hypnowheel(6x) draws overlapping, translucent spiral patterns
- ifs(6x) draws spinning, colliding iterated-function-system images
- imsmap(6x) generate fractal maps
- interaggregate(6x) Visualize the momentary and aggregate intersections between slowly moving circles.
- interference(6x) decaying sinusoidal waves
- intermomentary(6x) Visualize the momentary and aggregate intersections between slowly moving circles.
- jigglypuff(6x) save your screen by tormenting your eyes.
- jigsaw(6x) permute an image like a jigsaw puzzle
- juggler3d(6x) juggling man screen saver.
- julia(6x) draws spinning, animating julia-set fractals
- kaleidescope(6x) rotating line segments
- kaleidocycle(6x) draws twistable rings of tetrahedra
- klein(6x) Draws a 4d Klein bottle.
- kumppa(6x) spiraling, spinning, splashes of color rush toward the screen.
- lament(6x) animates the Lament Configuration
- lavalite(6x) 3D OpenGL simulation of a Lavalite.
- lcdscrub(6x) attempt to repair burn-in on LCD screens
- lockward(6x) Rotating spinning color-cycling things
- loop(6x) cellular automaton.
- mapscroller(6x) a slowly-scrolling map of a random place on Earth.
- marbling(6x) Marble-like or cloud-like patterns.
- maze(6x) an automated X11 demo repeatedly creating and solving a random maze
- maze3d(6x) A 3D maze.
- memscroller(6x) scrolls a dump of its own RAM across the screen
- menger(6x) 3D menger gasket fractal.
- metaballs(6x) draws 2D metaballs
- mirrorblob(6x) Draws a wobbly blob that distorts the image behind it.
- moebius(6x) Escher's Moebuis Strip II, with ants.
- moebiusgears(6x) draw a moebius strip of interlocking gears.
- moire(6x) draw circular interference patterns
- moire2(6x) circular interference patterns.
- molecule(6x) draws 3D molecular structures
- morph3d(6x) 3d morphing objects.
- mountain(6x) random 3D plots that look vaguely mountainous.
- munch(6x) munching squares
- nakagin(6x) Nakagin Capsule Tower screen saver.
- nerverot(6x) induces edginess in the viewer
- noof(6x) draw rotatey patterns
- noseguy(6x) a little guy with a big nose wanders around being witty
- pacman(6x) simulates a game of Pac-Man on a randomly-created level.
- papercube(6x) how to fold a glueless paper cube.
- pedal(6x) pretty geometric picture program
- peepers(6x) floating eyeballs.
- penetrate(6x) simulates a classic arcade shooting game
- penrose(6x) draws quasiperiodic tilings
- petri(6x) simulates mold growing in a petri dish
- phosphor(6x) simulates an old terminal with long-sustain phosphor
- photopile(6x) displays multiple images in a periodically shuffled pile
- piecewise(6x) lots of moving circles intersecting in interesting ways.
- pinion(6x) draws a scrolling sequence of interconnected gears
- pipes(6x) fill the screen with a plumbing system.
- polyhedra(6x) draws the 80 uniform polyhedra and their duals
- polyominoes(6x) fill a rectangle with irregularly-shaped blocks.
- polytopes(6x) Draws one of the six regular 4d polytopes rotating in 4d.
- pong(6x) Pong Home Video Game Emulator
- projectiveplane(6x) Draws a 4d embedding of the real projective plane.
- providence(6x) eye in glory screenhack
- pulsar(6x) intersecting planes, alpha blending, fog, and textures.
- pyro(6x) simulate fireworks
- qix(6x) bounce colored lines around a window
- quasicrystal(6x) aperiodic plane tilings.
- queens(6x) n queens screensaver
- raverhoop(6x) Simulates an LED hula hoop in a dark room.
- razzledazzle(6x) screen saver.
- rdbomb(6x) reaction/diffusion textures
- ripples(6x) interference patterns.
- risk(6x) start up a single-player version of risk
- rocks(6x) animation of flying through an asteroid field
- romanboy(6x) Draws a 3d immersion of the real projective plane that smoothly deforms between the Roman surface and the Boy surface.
- rorschach(6x) simulate ink-blot patterns
- rotzoomer(6x) animated rotations and scalings of portions of the screen
- rubik(6x) screen saver that solves Rubik's Cube.
- rubikblocks(6x) animates the Rubik's Mirror Blocks puzzle
- sballs(6x) draws balls spinning like crazy in GL
- scooter(6x) shows a journey through space tunnel and stars
- shadebobs(6x) oscillating vapor trails.
- sierpinski(6x) draws Sierpinski triangle fractals
- sierpinski3d(6x) 3D Sierpinski triangle fractal.
- skulloop(6x) recursive descent into a Platonic unit skull.
- skytentacles(6x) 3D tentacles from the sky!
- slidescreen(6x) permute the screen image like an 8-puzzle
- slip(6x) sucks your screen into a jet engine
- sonar(6x) display a sonar scope
- speedmine(6x) simulates speeding down a rocky mineshaft, or a funky dancing worm
- sphereeversion(6x) Displays a sphere eversion.
- spheremonics(6x) 3d spherical harmonic shapes.
- splitflap(6x) a simulation of a split-flap electromechanical display.
- splodesic(6x) k A geodesic sphere experiences a series of eruptions.
- spotlight(6x) move spotlight around desktop
- sproingies(6x) Q-Bert meets Marble Madness!
- squiral(6x) square spirals screensaver
- squirtorus(6x) how rainbows are made.
- stairs(6x) Escher's infinite staircase.
- starfish(6x) radially-symmetric throbbing colormap-hacking graphics demo
- starwars(6x) draws a perspective text crawl, like at the beginning of the movie
- stonerview(6x) 3D undulating ribbons of squares.
- strange(6x) draws strange attractors
- substrate(6x) Grow crystal-like lines on a computational substrate
- superquadrics(6x) morphing 3d shapes.
- surfaces(6x) Draws some interesting 3d parametric surfaces.
- swirl(6x) draws swirly color-cycling patterns
- tangram(6x) watch the computer solve tangram puzzles.
- tessellimage(6x) Converts an image to triangles using Delaunay tessellation.
- timetunnel(6x) Plasma tunnels fade in and out
- topblock(6x) a 3D world of falling blocks that build up and up.
- triangle(6x) random mountains using iterative subdivision of triangles.
- tronbit(6x) Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes.
- truchet(6x) draws curved or angular Truchet patterns
- twang(6x) pluck pieces of the screen
- unicode(6x) displays unicode characters
- unicrud(6x) Bounces a random Unicode character on the screen.
- unknownpleasures(6x) a waterfall graph of the signal from pulsar PSR B1919+21.
- vermiculate(6x) to move in a worm-like manner.
- vfeedback(6x) Simulates video feedback.
- vidwhacker(6x) grab images and apply random filters to them
- vigilance(6x) screen saver.
- voronoi(6x) draws a randomly-colored Voronoi tessellation
- wander(6x) colorful random-walk.
- webcollage(6x) a collage of random images from the World Wide Web
- whirlwindwarp(6x) crazy moving stars
- winduprobot(6x) screen saver.
- wormhole(6x) animation of flying through a wormhole
- xanalogtv(6x) Simulate reception on an old analog TV set
- xball(6x) bounce balls on the screen
- xblast-tnt(6x)
- xdemineur(6x) X11 minesweeper game
- xflame(6x) draws animated flames
- xfrisk(6x) risk board-game client for X11
- xgalaga(6x) X11 version of the famous Galaga game
- xgalaga++(6x) X11 classic vertical scrolling shoot'em up
- xjack(6x) all work and no play makes jack a dull boy
- xlyap(6x) display an array of Lyapunov exponents graphically
- xmatrix(6x) simulates the computer displays from the movie
- xonix(6x) a game
- xrayswarm(6x) swarms with color trails.
- xsok(6x) generic Sokoban game for X11, Version 1.02
- xspirograph(6x) simulates the rotation of a disk inside a circular rim
- xvier(6x) a X11 board game.
- zoom(6x) wander around magnified desktop