animatrix: ascii animation + matrix effect in a terminal window

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20819143

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/animatrix

This program written in C will create some basic animation of ascii-art loaded from a txt file, while rendering the matrix effect in the terminal window.

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So the same as cmatrix, which is already packaged in popular distros?

cmatrix has it's own features, and has most certainly been an inspiration. At first I made a project as a matrix-clone, in c.

Later on I added an extra feature in another project, rendering ascii-art in the foreground. In this step I tried taking a step further on.

Not by the slightest.

You can see it by yourself right now if you have docker: docker run -it --rm --log-driver none --cap-drop=ALL --read-only --net none --security-opt=no-new-privileges --name ascii-matrix defnotgustavom/ascii-matrix

-EDIT- Whoops. Just realized its a fork. Eeeeeehhhh... it'll give you a nice idea regardless.

I actually created a new image with it -- docker run -it --rm --log-driver none --cap-drop=ALL --read-only --net none --security-opt=no-new-privileges --name animatrix defnotgustavom/animatrix

UPDATE: I have just added another animation option (hop), you can check it out here.