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  Visual Music From Your Linux Box Issue 17
In the Lovecraft stories Cthugha is the name given to a horrific "elder god" which manifested itself to humans in the form of shifting colored lights.
The Linux version of Cthugha is compiled into two executables: cthugha, which is a console application (using Svgalib), and xcthugha, which runs either in an X-window or as a full-screen X application using the new DGA extensions.
Cthugha comes with several "translation tables"; these are filters which map the display to various moving patterns, such as spirals or the appearance of traveling through a starfield.
www.tldp.org /LDP/LG/issue17/cthugha.html   (951 words)

  
  Cthugha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cthugha is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu mythos of H.P. Lovecraft.
Cthugha is the creation of August Derleth and first appeared in his short story "The House on Curwen Street".
Cthugha is a Great Old One and resembles a giant ball of fire.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cthugha   (153 words)

  
 Fire vampire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The fire vampires that serve the Great Old One Cthugha appear as many points of fiery light.
They always accompany their lord whenever he is summoned to the Earth (though they may be summoned separately with the proper spells).
He is the high priest of Cthugha and is probably also his servant.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fthaggua   (381 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Cthugha processes audio input from your soundcard (Sound Blaster or Gravis Ultrasound} to produce a spectacular and colourful screen display.
Cthugha's display can be changed mid-hallucination by keyboard controls: the numerous options include changing waveforms, toggling between mono and stereo displays, selecting various 'flames' (visual modulations of the waveforms), and changing colour palettes.
While Cthugha will run in 4M of RAM, 8M is recommended, particularly if you're going to take advantage of additional translation tables and colour palettes (there's a useful collection of these extras available, as is the source code).
www.apcmag.com /apc/v3.nsf/print/52D8F9225C540AD9CA256D440020C094   (286 words)

  
 Cthugha
Also I'm a bit "bored" by Cthugha now - it was fun when we were working on it on three different continents and every week a great new thing was added.
Cthugha was originally written for DOS by Kevin"Zaph" Burfitt.
But if you want to know more, how Cthugha works it might be a good idea to download the source.
www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Lab/6386/cthugha   (546 words)

  
 Cthugha (An Oscilliscope on Acid)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Cthugha V5.2 ***************************** 'An Oscilliscope on Acid' ***************************** by the Digital Aasvogel Group.
------------------------- "Cthugha has tuned in, turned on, and decidedly dropped out of the humdrum world of scientific analog-signal processing." - Wired 3.03, March 1995 (page 156) "It gives credence to the phrase 'I can see music'...There is no real way to describe the patterns except as weird".
Cthugha 5.1, an oscilloscope program for PC sound cards, has tuned in, turned on, and decidedly dropped out from the humdrum world of scientific analog signal processing.
www.bnhof.de /~ho4907/mix/cthugha/Presstxt.htm   (233 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Cthugha
In the fictional Cthulhu Mythos stories, Cthugha is a godlike alien being, one of the many Great Old Ones.
He is served by the race of Fire Vampires, led by its possible progeny and regent Fthaggua.
If a summoning of Cthugha is improperly done, one may unintentionally summon Yomagn'tho.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Cthugha   (130 words)

  
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They surge through the gate heralding Cthugha's return, and immediately begin to lay waste to the area attacking all those who are on the summit or at the mountain's base.
If Cthugha is summoned, his time here on Earth is limited before being sucked, along with the rest of his cult, into the vortex.
Dismissing Cthugha If the players are successful in learning how to dismiss Cthugha, it'll be a matter for them when to cast it.
pages.prodigy.net /chaos-digest/chaos-digest/chaos-digest-v35n01.txt   (4367 words)

  
 Cthugha: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
[follow hyperlink for more...]) stories, Cthugha is a godlike alien being, one of the many Great Old One (Great Old One: cthulhu mythos is the label coined by the writer august derleth for the shared world...
He is served by the race of Fire Vampires, led by its possible progeny and regent (regent: Someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch) Fthaggua (Fthaggua: fthaggua is a fictional character from the cthulhu mythos....
In August Derleth's short story The Dweller in Darkness, the main characters attempt to summon Cthugha to drive an avatar (avatar: The manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human or superhuman or animal form) of Nyarlathotep (Nyarlathotep: nyarlathotep, also known as the crawling chaos, is a fictional character....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/cthugha   (229 words)

  
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The hand-written scrolls, each of which measure 18 inches wide by 3 meters long, are written in 6th century Pahlavi (Persian dialect) and comprise a collection of aphorisms, revelations, instructions, prayers, and prophecies of a time when the world shall burn, as well as diagrams, sidebars and random scribbles.
Cthugha is chanted at least three times in a lengthy ceremony.
Nestarian Cult of Cthugha Nestar Mobedan Mobed was a self proclaimed Zoroastrian prophet of the 6th century Persia who revered fire as earthly manifestations of a true god known as Cthugha.
pages.prodigy.net /chaos-digest/chaos-digest/chaos-digest-v34n12.txt   (4733 words)

  
 Cthugha at AllExperts
Cthugha is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction, the creation of August Derleth.
Something was stirring deep within that fiery atmosphere; something monstrous that roared an insatiable anger against the chains of the Elder Gods which had bound it there for an eternity....
In Dereleth's version of the Cthulhu Mythos, Cthugha is a Great Old One, an elemental spirit of fire opposed to the Elder Gods.
en.allexperts.com /e/c/ct/cthugha.htm   (336 words)

  
 man cthugha - An oscilloscope on acid. / Commandes / Pages du manuel Linux - ~tigrou/pwet.fr
man cthugha (1) - An oscilloscope on acid.
cthugha does this by using svgalib and displays directly on the console.
It is based on Cthugha V5.1 and V5.3 written by Kevin Burfitt (zaph@torps.apana.org.au) and many others.
pwet.fr /man/linux/commandes/cthugha   (416 words)

  
 The Official Cthugha Home Page
Cthugha has become a very popular form of visual entertainment, useful for parties, concerts, raves, and other events as well as just vegging out to mesmerizing, hynotizing displays...
Cthugha allows you to see the variations in the music.
Cthugha allows you to experience the music in a whole new way that complements the aurreal experience perfectly.
www.afn.org /~cthugha   (547 words)

  
 LinuxSoftware.org - Multimedia and Graphics : Sound : Misc. Sound Tools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Cthugha (pronounced "Kah-Thoo-Gah") is a free program available for PC's (running DOS, Windows, or Linux) and Macintosh's which takes sound input from a CD, stereo, or microphone and displays colorful animated graphics synced to the sound.
Cthugha has become a very popular form of visual entertainment, useful for parties, concerts, raves, and other events as well as just vegging out to mesmerizing, hynotizing displays...
GramoFile is a computer program, running under the Linux operating system (and some other UNIX-like OSses), with the main goal of putting the sound of for example gramophone records on CDs.
www.linuxsoftware.org /leaf.php3?catid=135   (275 words)

  
 Realm of Infamy - Miscellanious Call of Cthulhu creations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The ability damage dealt by casting this spell is a representation of the flesh and essence you first extend to the star vampires and Cthugha to draw and invite them, and then the subsequent consumption of further flesh and essence by the firey entities.
A portion of the essences is sent to Cthugha, and each casting grants an additional +1 bonus to the percent chance that he will answer a contact diety spell.
This spell is usually employed by worshippers of Cthugha and his kin to pay homage to them, or sometimes a particularly ambitious investigator may try to get an inside ally to combat mythos foes.
www.realmofinfamy.com /forum/showthread.php?t=2186   (1605 words)

  
 Necronomicon Project - Index
They had some innate correspondences to the four elements of earth, air, fire and water: for example, the chief divinity, a winged, octopus-headed monstrosity named Cthulhu, was a sea-elemental; his half-brother, Hastur, was an air-elemental (and costantly at odds with Cthulhu); another, named Cthugha, was a fire-elemental, and so on.
These were known as the Great Old Ones, and subservient to them was a second group of minor entities called the Lesser Old Ones, comprised of beings who served the Great Old Ones as leaders of their minions or servants.
For example, the minions of Cthulhu were called the Deep Ones, led by Father Dagon and Mother Hydra, and the minions of Cthugha were the so-called "Flame-Creatures," whose leader Fthaggua, dwelt on a world called Ktynga, while the great air-elemental, Hastur, was served by the Outer Ones, under their leader N'gha-Kthun.
www.bibliotecapleyades.net /cienciareal/necronomicon/azif/book2/cthlkidz.htm   (422 words)

  
 Into the Abyss : Sailor Cthugha
It was a very pissed off flame vampire, minion to the old one Cthugha.
Soon, she is surrounded by a vortex of orangy-red fire.
After a few seconds of the fire, it dissipates, leaving Sailor Cthugha revealed in all her fiery funness.
www.angelfire.com /anime4/fantasy_dreams/cthugha/index.html   (4636 words)

  
 Cthugha - Multiversal Omnipedia
Cthugha is a Great Old One that manifests as a living mass of flame.
Once dwelling on the molten earth of eons past, Cthugha now lives near the star Fomalhaut.
Master of the fire vampires and enemy of Nyarlathotep, Cthugha is rarely summoned or called upon due to the infernos that arise in its wake.
moa.dracandros.com /Cthugha   (64 words)

  
 Fire vampire at AllExperts
The term refers to two distinct types of beings: the Flame Creatures of Cthugha, created by August Derleth, and the Fire Vampires of Fthaggua, created by Donald Wandrei.
They always accompany their lord whenever he is summoned to the Earth (though they may be summoned separately with the proper spells).
He is the high priest of Cthugha and is probably also his servant.
en.allexperts.com /e/f/fi/fire_vampire.htm   (372 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Cthugha V5.0 'An Oscilliscope on Acid' by the Digital Aasvogel Group.
It is one of the most obscure and remote of all the Great Old Ones." Call of Cthulhu - Chaosium When Cthugha is summoned he is always accompanied by Fire Vampires.
Cthugha 'listens' to your music, and changes the display dynamically to the sound.
www.textfiles.com /computers/DOCUMENTATION/cthugha.txt   (892 words)

  
 Visual Music: The Linux Port of Cthugha | Linux Gazette
Cthugha has from the early days been available under the aegis of the Gnu General Public License,
The Linux version of Cthugha is compiled into two executables: cthugha, which is a console
Cthugha comes with several "translation tables"; these are filters which map the display to various
www.linuxgazette.com /node/7779   (972 words)

  
 Cthugha - TheBestLinks.com - August Derleth, Cthulhu Mythos, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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He is served by the race of Fire Vampires.
www.thebestlinks.com /Cthugha.html   (124 words)

  
 AnarchyMonkey.com // The Penis Graduation Song / FAQ
The psychedelic effects were generated by a free program called MaCthugha, the macintosh version of Cthugha.
The name "Cthugha" apparently comes from H.P. Lovecraft who gave the name to a horrific "elder god" which manifested itself to humans in the form of shifting colored lights.
I chose Cthugha because it's the oldest and most lo-fi version out there.
www.anarchymonkey.com /PGS/PGS_FAQ.html   (262 words)

  
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Cthugha V5.0 'An Oscilliscope on Acid' by the Digital Aasvogel Group.
It is one of the most obscure and remote of all the Great Old Ones." Call of Cthulhu - Chaosium When Cthugha is summoned he is always accompanied by Fire Vampires.
Cthugha 'listens' to your music, and changes the display dynamically to the sound.
textfiles.group.lt /computers/DOCUMENTATION/cthugha.txt   (892 words)

  
 3.03: Net Surf
An oscilloscope program for PC sound cards, Cthugha has tuned in, turned on, and decidedly dropped out of the humdrum world of scientific analog-signal processing.
Although Cthugha requires DOS, a VGA monitor, and a Sound Blaster or Gravis UltraSound sound card, the complete C source-code is part of this online package.
Cthugha is available via anonymous ftp from oak.oakland.edu in simtel/msdos/sound/ or from ftp.earthlink.net in pub/users/jay/CTHUGHA/.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.03/net_surf.html   (1681 words)

  
 Necronomicon Project - Index
They had some innate correspondences to the four elements of earth, air, fire and water: for example, the chief divinity, a winged, octopus-headed monstrosity named Cthulhu, was a sea-elemental; his half-brother, Hastur, was an air-elemental (and costantly at odds with Cthulhu); another, named Cthugha, was a fire-elemental, and so on.
These were known as the Great Old Ones, and subservient to them was a second group of minor entities called the Lesser Old Ones, comprised of beings who served the Great Old Ones as leaders of their minions or servants.
For example, the minions of Cthulhu were called the Deep Ones, led by Father Dagon and Mother Hydra, and the minions of Cthugha were the so-called "Flame-Creatures," whose leader Fthaggua, dwelt on a world called Ktynga, while the great air-elemental, Hastur, was served by the Outer Ones, under their leader N'gha-Kthun.
www.alquier.org /HPL/azif/book2/cthlkidz.html   (484 words)

  
 An Interactive Image Generator Issue 18
Last month I wrote about Cthugha, a sound-to-image converter and display engine.
This is similar to the format of the palette files used by Fractint and Cthugha; it probably wouldn't be too difficult to convert one format to the other.
Aside from the obvious real-time entertainment value, programs such as bomb, cthugha, and xlockmore can serve as grist for the Gimp, the incredible (but difficult to learn) GNU image-processing tool.
linuxgazette.net /issue18/bomb.html   (1083 words)

  
 Necronomicon 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
And Ithaqua shall ride the spaces among the stars, and those who serve them, the Tcho-Tcho, shall be ennobled, Cthugha shall encompass his dominion from Fomalhaut, and Tsathoggua shall come from N'kai.
These were known as ye Great Old Ones, and subservient to them was a second group of minor entities called ye Lesser Old Ones, comprised of beings who served ye Great Old Ones as leaders of their minions or servants.
And ye minions of Cthugha were ye so-called "Flame-Creatures," whose leader Fthaggua, dwelt on a world called Ktynga.....
www.strayreality.com /Lanis_Strayreality/necronomicon2.htm   (3287 words)

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