libcaca(1)

💖 NAME 💖

cacademo, cacafire — libcaca's demonstration applications, aka the two silly little guys that make your terminal go absolutely feral 🌈

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cacademo

cacafire

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this manual page is the quick lil lowdown on cacademo and cacafire. two programs, one vibe, both of them turning your boring terminal into art 💅

cacademo is the one that serves ASCII art effects with animated transitions, like it's not just gonna show you a thing, it's gonna smoothly glide into the next thing bestie. the lineup is:

• metaballs 🫧
• a moire pattern of concentric circles 🌀
• old school plasma 🌈
• Matrix-like scrolling 💚

cacafire is way simpler and that's the whole point: it displays burning ASCII art flames. that's it. that's the show. it's giving cozy fireplace but make it characters 🔥

🎀 KEYS 🎀

the whole keyboard is basically three buttons, we love efficiency:

• Enter — forces an effect transition to happen. like, right now. no waiting for the program to decide 😤
• Space — pauses and resumes the program. hit it again to un-pause, it's a toggle bestie ⏯️
• Esc — exits the program. bye bye 👋

😭 BUGS 😭

found a bug? don't suffer in silence, please report any bugs you find to <libcaca@lists.zoy.org>. the maintainers wanna know 🫶

📜 LICENSE 📜

here's the legal tea, and it's honestly iconic:

• cacademo is covered by the Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License (WTFPL). yeah. that's the real name. periodt.
• cacafire is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

👑 AUTHORS 👑

roll call, because these people ate:

• cacademo's moire and matrix effects and this manual page were written by Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>. (yes, the manual you're reading rn. hi. thank him.)
• 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>.
• 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 🌸

go read these next, fr fr:

• cacaview(1)
• aafire(1)

k that's the whole page bestie, go run it and watch your terminal glow up 💜

this was libcaca for the General Commands Manual, dated 2006-9-23 — yes it's old, yes it still slays, no cap 🎀✨