xantfarm

     NAME
          xantfarm - displays a simulated ant hill in the root window

     SYNOPSIS
          xantfarm [-n num] [-c cycles] [-i] [-display name]

     DESCRIPTION
          Xantfarm simulates an ant hill and displays it in the root
          window.

          There are three Elements in the ant world: Air, Dirt, and
          Sand.  Ants move through Air, dig up Dirt, and drop it as
          Sand.  Ants have three Behaviors: Wandering, Carrying, and
          Panic.  There are a few simple probabilities built in to the
          program that control the transitions between Wandering and
          Carrying.  To see them Panic, try poking the ants with the
          cursor.

     OPTIONS
          -n   Specifies how many ants to simulate.  The default is
               10.

          -c   Specifies how often the simulation runs, in cycles per
               second.  The default is 15.  If you specify 0, it runs
               continuously.

          -i   Forks a background process and prints the process-id to
               stdout.  Useful if you want to make a menu command to
               kill xantfarm.

     BUGS / DEFICIENCIES
          It really needs a control panel to adjust probabilities
          without having to recompile and restart.

     SEE ALSO
          xsetroot(1)

     AUTHOR
          Copyright (C) 1991 by Jef Poskanzer