From 1030dc837b10a03a02a85d5504cbeec168ce49e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernie Innocenti Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 21:53:47 +0000 Subject: Import XaoS r489 (trunk after version 3.5) --- (limited to 'help/rest/autopilot.txt') diff --git a/help/rest/autopilot.txt b/help/rest/autopilot.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..31cb159 --- /dev/null +++ b/help/rest/autopilot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +.. _autopilot: + +.. index:: + pair: menu item; Autopilot + pair: command line option; autopilot + pair: command; autopilot + +Autopilot +========= + +**Syntax**:(autopilot bool) + +To make XaoS yet more impressive, we made a special autopilot mode that +automatically drives into interesting boundaries of the set; you should press +A, play your favorite music, drink coffee and relax. I never tried this but it +should be really relaxing! Many pictures in the XaoS gallery were discovered +using the autopilot. + +The autopilot also has some additional features. It backtracks if the zoomed +picture is not interesting anymore, and can detect when it's zoomed into really +a boring part of the fractal or reached the limit of floating point arithmetic +on the platform, and restart zooming from the top. + +**Available as**: menu item, command line option, command -- cgit v0.9.1