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Escher is a collection of libraries for X Window System written purely in Java.

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Provide display hacks.


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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.



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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?