CLUSTER ART-ASCII-TERMINAL · 16 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-09-21
ASCII art terminal animations
This cluster comprises terminal applications and web animations that render visual entertainment—such as flags, DOOM fire, videos, plasma fields, text banners, aquariums, and a retro UNIX terminal—using ASCII art and character-based graphics. The dated entry history before the index start is sparse, with occurrences in 2025-04, 2025-09 (two), 2025-11, 2026-01, 2026-04, 2026-05, 2026-06, and 2026-07 (two), showing no clear trend. Traction leaders, based on activity signal, are bangen-bin, theattyr-bin, and ditto, all with 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 13 unlabelled
Operator · 5 hobby · 11 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 16 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01ASIJI-Native-Rust-Player2★20 days—hobbyTerminal media player that renders local video as ASCII or block graphics and shows audio visualizers on Windows and Linux.
- 02badapple-hd0★27 daysliveopen sourceTerminal app that plays the Bad Apple animation.
- 03spotify-ascii0★4 days—hobbyTerminal app that animates colorful ASCII art scenery synchronized with the song currently playing in Spotify.
- 04five-months0★13 days—hand-codedhobbyTerminal application that displays endless procedural Chinese-style landscape paintings, generated from a seed and controllable by keyboard.
- 05bangen-bin0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal app that renders colorful animated ASCII text banners from user input.
- 06theattyr-bin0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal application that plays VT100 art and animations, turning the command line into a visual theater for entertainment.
- 07ditto0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal program that displays keyboard key presses as ASCII art system-wide.
- 08badapple-py0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal application that plays an animated video in ASCII art for entertainment on Linux systems.
- 09plasma-visual0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal application that displays an animated fluid plasma field visualization rendered as characters.
- 10badapple0★4 moliveopen sourceTerminal player that renders a classic animation sequence as ASCII art with real-time display.
- 11video2ascii0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal application that converts videos into animated ASCII art and plays them back.
- 12ASCIIQuarium (UNOFFICIAL)0★unknownlivehand-codedhobbyTerminal application that displays an animated ASCII art aquarium scene for visual entertainment.
- 13ccraw0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal-based program that displays crows in a whimsical animation, providing a simple visual amusement.
- 14Infinite-UNIX-Terminal0★8 mostaleliveai-builthobbyWeb animation that simulates an infinite UNIX terminal with retro CRT effects and typing sequences for sci-fi aesthetics.
- 15soeder-flag0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal application that displays a colorful animated flag using character art.
- 16doom-fire0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal program that renders the classic DOOM fire effect using ASCII art.
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