2x2, etc). Increasing the cell size may help with flickering on high DPI
monitors displaying chaotic rulesets.
-If neither of the following two options are passed, the simulation selects
-whatever cell size it feels appropriate for the current simulation speed.
+If neither of the following two options are passed, the simulation behaves as
+though `-cell-size 2` was passed.
- - **`-random-cell-size`**: Selects cell size of 2^N pixels for an `N`
- randomly chosen in the inclusive range `0`-`5`.
+ - **`-random-cell-size`**: Randomly selects 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, or 32 as the cell
+ size on each reset of the simulation.
- **`-cell-size N`**: Display each individual cell as an `N`x`N` square of
pixels on the screen.
state->gc = XCreateGC(state->dpy, state->win, GCForeground, &gcv);
/* Set the size of each simulated cell to NxN pixels for cell_size=N. */
- if (get_boolean_resource(state->dpy, "random-pixel-size", "Boolean")) {
+ if (get_boolean_resource(state->dpy, "random-cell-size", "Boolean")) {
/* Although we are choosing the pixel size 'randomly', a truly random */
/* selection would bias toward large numbers since there are more of */
/* them. To avoid this, we select a random number for a bit shift, */
/* resulting in a pixel size of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 or 32, equally likely. */
state->cell_size = 1 << (random() % 6);
} else {
- state->cell_size = get_integer_resource(state->dpy, "pixel-size", "Integer");
+ state->cell_size = get_integer_resource(state->dpy, "cell-size", "Integer");
}
if (state->cell_size < 1) state->cell_size = 1;
if (state->cell_size > state->dpy_width) state->cell_size = state->dpy_width;
"*delay-usec: 25000",
"*admiration-delay: 5",
"*num-generations: 5000",
- "*pixel-size: 2",
+ "*cell-size: 2",
"*color-index: -1",
"*population-density: 50",
"*population-single: False",
- "*random-cellsize: False",
+ "*random-cell-size: False",
"*random-delay: False",
"*random-length: False",
"*random-rule: False",
{ "-delay-usec", ".delay-usec", XrmoptionSepArg, 0 },
{ "-admiration-delay", ".admiration-delay", XrmoptionSepArg, 0 },
{ "-num-generations", ".num-generations", XrmoptionSepArg, 0 },
- { "-pixel-size", ".pixel-size", XrmoptionSepArg, 0 },
+ { "-cell-size", ".cell-size", XrmoptionSepArg, 0 },
{ "-color-index", ".color-index", XrmoptionSepArg, 0 },
{ "-population-density", ".population-density", XrmoptionSepArg, 0 },
{ "-population-single", ".population-single", XrmoptionNoArg, "True" },
- { "-random-cellsize", ".random-pixel-size", XrmoptionNoArg, "True" },
+ { "-random-cell-size", ".random-cell-size", XrmoptionNoArg, "True" },
{ "-random-delay", ".random-delay", XrmoptionNoArg, "True" },
{ "-random-length", ".random-num-generations", XrmoptionNoArg, "True" },
{ "-random-rule", ".rule-random", XrmoptionNoArg, "True" },