cacafire - Man Page
libcaca's demonstration applications
Examples (TL;DR)
- Display the ASCII fire:
cacafire
Synopsis
cacademo
cacafire
Description
This manual page documents briefly the cacademo and cacafire programs.
cacademo displays ASCII art effects with animated transitions: metaballs, moire pattern of concentric circles, old school plasma, Matrix-like scrolling.
cacafire displays burning ASCII art flames.
Keys
- Enter
forces an effect transition to happen
- Space
pauses and resumes the program
- Esc
exits the program
Bugs
Please report any bugs you find to <libcaca@lists.zoy.org>.
License
cacademo is covered by the Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License (WTFPL). cacafire is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
Authors
cacademo's moire and matrix effects and this manual page were written by Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>.
cacademo's metaball effect was written by Jean-Yves Lamoureux <jylam@lnxscene.org>, cacafire is a port of AAlib's aafire written by Jan Hubicka <hubicka@freesoft.cz> and cacademo's plasma effect is a port of an SDL plasma effect written and put in the public domain by Michele Bini <mibin@tin.it>.
See Also
Referenced By
The man page cacademo(1) is an alias of cacafire(1).