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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>display hack</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="disk-farm.html" title="disk farm"/><link rel="next" href="dispress.html" title="dispress"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">display hack</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="disk-farm.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dispress.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="display-hack"/><dt xmlns="" id="display-hack"><b>display hack</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to
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make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include
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<a href="../M/munching-squares.html"><i class="glossterm">munching squares</i></a>, <a href="../S/smoking-clover.html"><i class="glossterm">smoking clover</i></a>, the BSD Unix
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rain</span>(6)</span>
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program,
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">worms</span>(6)</span>
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on miscellaneous Unixes, and the <a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a>
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">kaleid</span>(1)</span>
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program. Display hacks can also be implemented by creating text files
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containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video
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terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree
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with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The
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<a href="../H/hack-value.html"><i class="glossterm">hack value</i></a> of a display hack is proportional to the
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esthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided
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by the size of the code.
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Syn. <a href="../P/psychedelicware.html"><i class="glossterm">psychedelicware</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="disk-farm.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dispress.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">disk farm </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dispress</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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