plaid screen

plaid screen

[XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kindsof memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or imagememory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper"may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Thoughthe term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error,some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberatelyas a display hack.