Animations
Minotor shipped 19 animations. Each one is a C++ class in Animation/; the name, the one-line description and the preview image below are the ones the program itself showed in its library panel.
Every animation inherits two properties from MinoAnimation, which is why every group in the program window shows the same first row of knobs: Hue and Light, the two parameters of its colour, and Loop, how long one cycle of the animation lasts — from a quarter of a beat to 16 beats, counted in MIDI clock ticks (6 to 384). The parameters listed on each card are the extra ones that animation adds. Curve is an easing curve — how a value moves between its start and end within one period — and nearly every animation has one.
Flash
Beat-sync flash
Curve
Flashing bars
Beat-synced flashing bars
Width · Duration · Curve
Flashing grid
Beat-synced flashing grid
Width · Items X · Items Y · Duration · Curve
Bars from sides
Beat-synced random borders bars
Color type · Curve
Rotating bars
Beat-sync rotating bars
Width · Length · Curve
Expanding objects
Beat-synced expanding objects
Duration · Style · Shape · Curve
Falling objects
Beat-sync moving lines
Duration · Density · Direction · Length · Width · Curve
Random pixels
Beat-synced randomly placed pixels
Density · Curve · Duration
Stars
Moving stars
Duration · Curve · Density
Vibration
Beat-synced vibration
Segment · Curve
Waveform
Beat-synced waves
Color type · Curve · Type
Curve
Scrolling curve
Curve · Accel.
Gradient
Beat-sync gradient waves
Style · Waves · Curve
Rainbow Oil
Beat-sync moving colored oil
Style · Curve · Speed · Boost · Step
Plasma
Strange thing ;-)
Steps · Curve
Balls
Balls
Size
Text
Beat-synced text
Duration · Style · Curve
Two without a preview
Image — “Use file as image source”. Loads a picture file; the default in the code is spaceinvader.gif. This is what the wiki offered anyone who wanted video: Minotor had no clip player, but an animated GIF loop would play in tempo. Its only extra parameter is Curve.
Debug — “Use me to make a better program :-)”. A developer's animation. Its preview image is referenced in the code but was never committed, and it adds no parameters.
Where the list comes from
Names and descriptions are the MinoAnimationDescription strings in each Animation/mina*.h; parameters are the setLabel() calls in the matching .cpp, in the order the constructor creates them. Preview images are the files in images/. All of it is GPL-3.0, from the repository as of its last commit on February 2017.
The wiki linked to a tutorial on writing your own animation, create_your_own_minotor_animation, but the page was never written. The classes themselves are the best guide: all 19 together come to 2,448 lines, and the longest, Falling objects, is 267.