An index of popular scripts and programs that produce static or animated artistic visuals in a terminal emulator
I am considering adding individual descriptions and screenshots/asciinema casts to the entries in the future
- must be made for fun and not purely utilitarian (a beautiful system process viewer wouldn't make the cut, or even something like hollywood; neither would indicators like ILoveCandy)
- must display in some shell, but no specific character encoding or formatting requirements
- can be an easter egg within a program
- cannot be exclusively a terminal "effect" requiring input e.g. lolcat or figlet
- cannot be a filter or conversion of other visual content e.g. ascii.theater or rickrollrc; content must be made for the shell
- cannot be an audio visualizer e.g. cava
- cannot be an asciinema cast
- cannot be a game
- $ ack --bar
- $ ack --thppt
- bonsai
- $ boxes -l
- cowsay
- cowthink
- $ fortune asciiart
- globe
- parrotsay
- vim :smile
- $ curl wttr.in/moon (the art is considerably larger than / separated from the data)
- aafire
- aajm
- ascsaver: dogs / globe / monkey / nasa / rmrf / star_wars / van_halen
- ascii.live: batman&robin, batman, coin, donut, dvd, forrest, frames, knot, nebulaehes, nyan, parrot, playstation, spidyswing (some available via $ curl ascii.live/[pattern])
- asciiquarium
- bb
- blue ocean
- cacademo: metaballs / moire pattern of concentric circles / old school plasma / Matrix-like scrolling
- cbeams
- cmatrix
- duckpond
- emacs M-x hanoi
- falling-<3s.sh
- $ bash fireworks.sh 2> errors.txt
- gh-screensaver: fireworks / starfield / pipes / pollock / life
- Langton's Ant / Mandelbrot
- lavat
- maze.py
- $ ssh movie.gabe565.com
- $ curl node-web-console.glitch.me
- nyancat
- $ curl parrot.live
- pipes.sh
- pipesX.sh
- rain
- rain (from "bsdgames")
- sl
- snakes.pl
- snowmachine
- termdvd
- terminal-parrot
- tfire
- tspace
- VT100 ascii animations
- weatherspect (despite being part of a utilitarian program- the ascii art is supplementary and elaborate)
- weave.sh
- worms
- $ xaos -driver aa -extended -autopilot -autorotate on -dim -bold -gamma .9