cacalabs/libcaca
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💩 Colour ASCII Art Library
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2017-03-18 · latest 2026-01-17
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Don't know what algorithm are used by the famous libcaca: https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca
comment by guerby · 2026-01-17 · in ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering -
I just learned about libcaca :-) https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca
comment by wkjagt · 2025-10-23 · in Show HN: Subway Surfers in Your Terminal -
…overlap with libcaca? cacademo and cacafire are especially impressive. Also has Python bindings. https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca/tree/main [edit, also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib ]
comment by emmelaich · 2024-05-29 · in TTE: Terminal Text Effects -
…text instead of pixels", used by well-known software. Invoke "mplayer --vo=caca ((a video file))" https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca
comment by natmaka · 2019-09-18 · in Asciicker – an online 3D game demo rendering to ASCII text -
See also the venerable libcaca: https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca Demo: https://asciinema.org/a/kjsWPMv5qtn87IHRd4th3EuNB
comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2018-06-14 · in GIF for CLI -
Cool, TIV looks great! (Just compiled, ran, and tested it.) I thought [cacaview]( https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca ) was the only terminal image viewer player in town with their attendant `cacaview' prog. I'd very much appreciate it if…
comment by igravious · 2018-01-05 · in Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH -
Just reminded myself of another option: https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca
comment by digi_owl · 2017-03-18 · in Timg – Terminal Image Viewer