Smoking clover

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According to the Jargon File, Smoking clover is a computer display hack,[1] originally created by Bill Gosper. Several converging lines are drawn on a color monitor in such a way that every pixel struck has its color incremented—altered to the next hue up or down. The color map is then repeatedly rotated.

The result of this is a rainbow-hued, shimmering four-leaf clover. The program has been described as "psychedelic", and Gosper joked about keeping it a secret from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) due to its "hallucinogenic properties".

Source code for Linux to reproduce the effect is available on the web, the resulting program is best run with the -r flag.

Notes

  1. ↑ "smoking clover". The Jargon File. 


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