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display hack
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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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