ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects

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TerminalTextEffects (TTE) is a terminal visual effects engine, application, and Python library.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2024-09-09 · latest 2026-10-15

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https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects All of the common terminals run TTE surprisingly well. That's 60fps, pushing many megabytes per second of text and control sequences.
comment by x187463 · 2026-10-15 · in OpenCode 2.0
…terminal-based screensavers, using something called tte[2] to do so. 1: https://omarchy.org/ 2: https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects
comment by rkapsoro · 2025-10-28 · in Show HN: Bash Screensavers
…ascii art of your choice. Run it in a loop if you want :) 1: https://keeb.dev/static/login.mp4 2: https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects
comment by nickstinemates · 2025-10-28 · in Show HN: Bash Screensavers
…TTE due to the huge amount of data being written to stdout. https://docs.asciinema.org/manual/agg/ https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects
comment by x187463 · 2025-09-15 · in Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, adds live streaming, upgrades file format
…animations like the following: https://chrisbuilds.github.io/terminaltexteffects/img/change... https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects
comment by x187463 · 2025-08-27 · in Monodraw
Well, this is cool. I'll have to see how it handles the sorts of effects I show in the README at https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects . I don't know much about SVG but anything that attempts to actually store the text is…
comment by x187463 · 2025-07-08 · in SVGs that feel like GIFs
You might like TerminalTextEffects. Disclosure, I'm the author. https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects
comment by x187463 · 2025-05-28 · in Show HN: Terminal Flower Garden