Munching square
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title:
Munching square
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The Munching Square is a display hack dating back to the PDP-1, which employs a trivial computation to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen. The initial value of T is treated as a parameter, which, when well-chosen, can produce amazing effects. Some of these, later (re)discovered on the LISP machine, have been christened munching triangles, munching w's, and munching mazes. More generally, suppose a graphics program produces an impressive and ever-ch
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1962 display hack
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munching_square
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2024-01-08T16:23:10Z
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