Provide display hacks.
Name
From
The Jargon Lexicon:
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.
Help Needed
- implement all screensavers from jwz
- maze, distort, epicycle, flag, ccurve, hopalong, jigsaw, phosphor,
sonar, spotlight, strange, xmatrix, kaleidescope, loop, bumps,
compass, coral, critical
-
fractal graphics?