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
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 p
the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the
size of the code. Syn. psychedelicware.
A program with the same approximate
purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display
hacks include munching squares, smoking clover
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 p
the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the
size of the code. Syn. psychedelicware.
Related:
- display hack: n. A program with the same approximate purpose as a
kaleidoscope:
to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include... - psychedelicware /si:`k*-del'-ik-weir/ n.
[UK] Syn.
display hack. See also smoking clover... - munching squares n.
A display hack dating back to the
PDP-1 (ca.
1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which... - munching squares: n. A {display hack} dating back to the PDP-1
(ca.
1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which... - neat hack: n. 1. A clever technique. 2. A brilliant practical
joke,
where neatness is correlated with cleverness, harmlessness... - retrocomputing /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n.
Refers to
emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software,
or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; esp... - retrocomputing: /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ n. Refers to emulations
of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software,
or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art... - neat hack n.
[very common] 1. A clever technique.
2. A brilliant practical joke, where neatness is... - hack value n.
Often adduced as the reason or motivation for
expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal,
the point being that the accomplished goal is a...
