HTML Canvas in the terminal

ninjin 11 years ago |

Absolutely wonderful idea, I hope the author had a lot of fun hacking on this.

On a slightly related note, if you have not been exposed to the BB demo using aalib, do not miss out on this gem from the late 90s (if you are on a Linux distribution you can most likely install it using your package manager, e.g. `apt-get install bb`).

http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/

bnegreve 11 years ago | |

With aalib, you can even render videos on the terminal. E.g. on Linux:

    mplayer -vo aa video.mpg

Will use aalib to render video.mpg inside the current terminal/console. The quality is not great though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5JLjfCi0mw (Here with Vlc.)

cben 11 years ago | | |

Use -vo caca for color output via libcaca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur3iEHo6rI8#t=25

seanewest 11 years ago |

TJ Holowaychuk made something like this a few years ago:

https://github.com/visionmedia/term-canvas

michaelmior 11 years ago |

This is very cool. It would be interesting to use this as part of an abstraction layer for HTML5 Canvas games so they could run in the terminal as well as the browser.

thomasahle 11 years ago |

Would such a thing allow the creation of a complete terminal fronted for webkit or so? I would love to be able to do all my browsing from the terminal.

jimktrains2 11 years ago | |

Even if it could the quality of images would be abysmal, if even useful.

There are options for browsing in the terminal such as lynx, links, and w3m, obviously they don't have graphics support.

Sir_Cmpwn 11 years ago | | |

It's possible to view images in certain terminals, with w3m.

https://mediacru.sh/rML4x537Mf0o

Screenshot is xterm. Also supposedly works with urxvt, but I can't get it to work correctly.

jimktrains2 11 years ago | | |

w3m has always opened images in an external program for me. I'll have to check out how to do this! :)

Jasper_ 11 years ago | | |

Put a trigger warning on that anime, please.

tomgg 11 years ago | | |

I can't speak for the others, but w3m definitely has graphics support.

gcb4 11 years ago | |

phantom already does a full headless web kit browser. with screen shot capabilities.