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display hack
(foldoc) | display hack
A program with the same approximate purpose as a
kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks
include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix
"rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the
X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be
implemented without programming by creating text files
containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a
video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a
Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling
its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional
to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of
the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym
psychedelicware.
[Jargon File]
(1995-05-10)
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display hack
(jargon) | display hack
n.
A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make
pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, {smoking
clover}, the BSD Unix rain(6) program, worms(6) on miscellaneous Unixes,
and the X kaleid(1) program. Display hacks can also be implemented by
creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation
by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a
Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The
hack value of a display hack is proportional to the esthetic value of the
images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the
code. Syn. psychedelicware.
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