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********************** FUN WITH FISH *********************
There are lots of programs for lots of platforms to make fish swim in the
background of your screen. This is a modification of an old one called
xfish (also called Xaquarium), that I have added more features to.
To not confuse you (or confuse you more) I will call this modified xfish
"xfishtank". ['A rose by any other name...' and all that]
How is this different? I started with you basic xfish, and I kept the
bubbles (actually I re-wrote some of the bubble code, but it LOOKS the same).
I changed the rest of the code to allow any number of multicolored fish to
swim around. Each fish can have up to 255 colors, but on startup the program
takes all the colors from all the fish, and squeezes them down to all fit
into the default colormap as best it can. Any fish can be any size in
width and height. To make them look more like they are swimming, fish are
animated (Very simple 2 frame animation) [I got this idea from watching
the AfterDark fish on the Mac]. Fish CANNOT swim over each other, they
will turn around if they are about to collide. I had a version that
had fish swiming over each other, it was WAY to slow to be something to run
on your background while working, so I deleted it.
Eric Bina
508 E. Michigan, #35
Urbana, IL 61801
ebina@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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