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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<screensaver name="ifs" _label="IFS">

  <command arg="-root"/>

  <number id="delay" type="slider" arg="-delay %"
    _label="Frame rate" _low-label="Low" _high-label="High"
    low="0" high="100000" default="20000"
    convert="invert"/>

  <number id="functions" type="slider" arg="-functions %"
    _label="Number of functions" _low-label="2" _high-label="6"
           low="2" high="6" default="3"/>

  <number id="detail" type="slider" arg="-detail %"
    _label="Detail" _low-label="Low" _high-label="High"
    low="4" high="14" default="9"/>

<!--
  On a 2.93 gHz iMac i7, I get these rates with -delay 0:

    detail 3:  invisible
    detail 4:  barely visible
    detail 5:  1000+ fps, looks like noise at -delay 0, ok at -delay 20000
    detail 8:  ~700+ fps
    detail 9:  ~400 fps
    detail 10: ~300 fps
    detail 11: ~100 fps
    detail 12:  ~50 fps
    detail 13:  ~17 fps
    detail 14:   ~8 fps
    detail 15:   ~2 fps

  With the default -delay, CPU load only starts causing the frame rate
  to drop below 30 fps detail 12 or higher.
-->

  <number id="colors" type="slider" arg="-colors %"
    _label="Number of colors" _low-label="2" _high-label="Many"
    low="2" high="255" default="200" />

  <hgroup>
   <boolean id="translate" _label="Translate" arg-unset="-no-translate"/>
   <boolean id="scale"     _label="Scale"     arg-unset="-no-scale"/>
   <boolean id="rotate"    _label="Rotate"    arg-unset="-no-rotate"/>
   <boolean id="showfps" _label="Show frame rate" arg-set="-fps"/>
  </hgroup>

  <_description>

This one draws spinning, colliding iterated-function-system images.

Note that the "Detail" parameter is exponential.  Number of points
drawn is functions^detail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_function_system

Written by Chris Le Sueur and Robby Griffin; 1997.
  </_description>
</screensaver>