Talk:Smoking clover

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Due to the old age of this display hack, finding direct references that don't repeat the two paragraphs in the Jargon File is difficult.

Surely someone has a picture of this, or can fake one? I'd love to see! Rissa 01:20, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

The only picture or example I could find anywhere is here. The picture's kinda cool, but there's not much explaining how it was done. Does anyone know more about this? I want to create this effect in ActionScript 3, but based on the info online I can't really tell exactly how it works. Are the convergent lines stationary or do they rotate? Are there only two perpendicular ones, or is the number and position of the lines variable? I kinda understand "rotate the color map," but I just think it'd be so much easier to recreate this effect if I could actually see a working example. How do you increment the hue of a RGB color like #D4D0C8 or something? I wonder what it'd look like if you did XOR on the color code or something... Peaceoutside 23:10, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Update. I found a C-based version of the smoking clover! Big problem for me though, I can't compile it since all I have access to right now is Windows Vista! I spent like 3 or 4 hours trying to get it to work. If anyone can compile a windows executable from that source code and send it to me I'd be supremely pleased! Contact me - peaceoutnumbered -AT- gmail Peaceoutside 05:17, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

A screenshot is necessary to illustrate this effect

W2bh 19:00, 16 November 2006 (UTC)