Command Line Curiosities - Making the Terminal Sing
summary
Creates usable terminal graphics libraries (Python cursebox and a Scala ANSI-only framework cirrhosis) and releases them open source. Demonstrates a Mandelbrot explorer, a Pokédex PNG renderer, a module music player with FFT-based spectrogram, and a traceroute-to-vector map, all rendered with text. Uses a Braille mapping for 2×4 pixels, a half-block trick plus a dynamic xterm 256-color lookup for one-to-one pixels and colors, and prototypes a Wolfenstein-like raytracer and a tiling GUI with PNG and widget support over SSH.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:50ASCII
- 4:40Logo
- 5:35Unicode
- 11:55Braille
- 13:05Surveyor
- 13:55Halfblock
- 16:20Orbiter
- 17:40Scala Times
- 18:20cirrhosis
- 19:00Demos
- 19:25Onion
- 21:20Wolfenstein
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