CLUSTER ASCII-TERMINAL-ART · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-02-12
Terminal ASCII webcam feeds
A cluster of terminal applications that capture live webcam video and render it as ASCII art in the console. Dated entries appear sporadically from February 2025 to July 2026, with no clear trend. Traction leaders termicam-bin, ascii-cam, and charviews each have 0 stars, indicating minimal user adoption.
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 · 5 unlabelled
Operator · 5 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01termicam-bin0★2 moliveopen sourceReal-time camera feed converted to ASCII art displayed in the terminal.
- 02ascii-cam0★1 moliveopen sourceReal-time ASCII camera that converts webcam footage into graphical characters in the terminal.
- 03charviews0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal dashboard that displays a webcam feed as ASCII art in the command line.
- 04ascii-chat0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal application that streams live video chat between users, rendering the video feed as ASCII art in the console.
- 05tuicam0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal application that captures live webcam video and renders it as ASCII art directly in the console.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.