eye candy

Slick images, animations and other graphics effects that are added to Web sites and applications. They are designed to excite and stimulate the user, not perform any necessary function. In other words, glitz, sizzle and pizzazz. See cornea gumbo.

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[from mainstream slang “ear candy”] A display of some sort that's presented to lusers to keep them distracted while the program performs necessary background tasks. “Give 'em some eye candy while the back-end slurps that BLOB into core.” Reported as mainstream usage among players of graphics-heavy computer games. We're also told this term is mainstream slang for soft pornography, but that sense does not appear to be live among hackers.

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The term Eye Candy or eye candy can refer to one of the following:

• Attractiveness
• Eye Candy (album), an album by Mis-Teeq
• software "Eye Candy", a plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Fireworks that adds new filter effects.
• "Eye Candy", an episode of the animated series Happy Tree Friends.

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