starfish(1): radially-symmetric throbbing ...

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-window: Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
-root: Draw on the root window.
-mono: If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display.
-install: Install a private colormap for the window.
-visual visual: Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
-delay microseconds: How much of a delay should be introduced between steps of the animation. Default 10000, or about 1/100th second.
-cycle-delay microseconds: How long to wait between shifting the colormap by one step. Default 100000, or about 1/10th second.
-thickness pixels: How wide each color band should be. Default 0, meaning random (the chosen value will be between 0 and 15.)
-rotation degrees: How quickly the objects should rotate at each step. Default 0, meaning random (the chosen value will be between 0 and 12 degrees.)
-colors int: How many colors to use. Default 200. The more colors, the smoother the transitions will be, and the nicer the resultant images.
-cycle
-no-cycle: Whether to do colormap cycling. Default true.
-duration seconds: How long to run before choosing a new shape. Default 30 seconds.
-delay2 seconds: When duration expires, how long to wait before starting a new run. Default 5 seconds.
-blob
-no-blob: If blob option is specified, then the raw shapes will be shown, instead of a field of colors generated from them.

DISPLAY: to get the default host and display number.
XENVIRONMENT: to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.