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xmeltdown

• DonHopkins 11y ago
  Jeremy Huxtable made the original "Big Brother" NeWS version of eyes [1], which inspired xeyes at SIGGRAPH '88 [2], and he also made the NeWS version of melt [3], in just 30 lines of code! My favorite OpenWindows demo was Pat Lashley's monaeyes [4], of course. And I made a fancy version of eyeball windows for The NeWS Toolkit [5] to show off its drag-n-drop and nested window management capabilities, where the eyeball was the window frame, and the iris was the client window, and you could split them in two, and even drag and drop eyes inside of each other, so that sub-eye window frame was reparented inside the moving super-eye client iris! The effect was very creepy and CPU intensive, and I could never quite talk the OPEN LOOK folks into adopting them into the standard. [1] http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/fun/eye/eye.ps.txt http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/fun/eye/eye.ps.... [2] http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xeyes.1.html http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xeyes.1.html [3] http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/fun/melt/melt.ps.txt http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/fun/melt/melt.p... [4] http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/monaeyes.txt http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/monaeyes.txt [5] http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/eyes.ps.txt http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/eyes.ps.txt