madness

Calculate and display an aggregating particle

Authored and Contributed by

Ronald Joe Record

Restrictions

Copyright 1993, 1994 Ronald Joe Record

Availability

The mathrec source code is freely redistributable. The author maintains binary distributions for Caldera OpenLinux 3.1, OpenServer, UnixWare 7 and Open UNIX 8. These distributions and the source code are available via:

Binary Distributions
OpenLinux/Open UNIX	ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/.../RPMS/mathrec-1.1c-1col.i586.rpm (no longer available)
UnixWare 7	ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/uw7/Packages/mathrec-1.1b.pkg
OpenServer	ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/osr5/vols/mathrec-1.1c-VOLS.tar

Source Code Distributions
Source RPM	ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/.../SRPMS/mathrec-1.1c-1col.src.rpm (no longer available)
Gzip'd tar archive	ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/src/x11/misc/mathrec-1.1c.tar.gz

History

Written 4/22 1988 by Ron Record (rr@ronrecord.com). Based in part on the Computer Recreations article in the 5/88 Scientific American.

Description

The heart drawing mode was added right after the Loma Prieta earthquake. The idea was to convey the sense of a seismograph gone berserk but forming the shape of a heart.

Some sample shell scripts are provided in /usr/local/mathrec/madness.

It's amazing what you can do with sines and cosines.

Build

To build the madness binary, use the Imakefile. After modifying the Imakefile appropriately, either use "xmkmf" or "imake" to create a Makefile. Then just type "make" to compile madness.

The manual page can be formatted by typing "nroff -man madness.man > madness.1".

Install

To install madness, copy the madness binary to the desired location (the sample makefile puts it in /usr/local/bin). Also copy the resource file Madness.ad to /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Madness or append it to you local $HOME/.Xdefaults. Copy the formatted man page to wherever you keep your local doc (i use /usr/man/cat.LOCAL for imaging software), then add that location to your MANPATH.

Productivity

None

Safety

I have used this for years without harm.

Work Planned

None

Documentation

manual page.

Verification

You can test madness by just invoking it with no arguments. Some "interesting" ways to run madness are provided as shell scripts in the params subdirectory of the source and in /usr/skunk/lib/madness.

Feedback

Ideas, comments, additions, deletions, suggestions, bug reports, code review,... e-mail Ronald Record at rr@ronrecord.com