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CLUSTER TERMINAL-GRAPHS-COMMAND · 12 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-12-01

Terminal-based graphing tools

This cluster covers command-line tools and libraries for rendering plots, graphs, histograms, and 3D models directly in the terminal, typically using ASCII or low-resolution graphics. The dated history is sparse, with a single entry in each of 11 months scattered between January 2016 and June 2026, showing no strong pattern. The leading products by activity signal are matlab-terminal-server, python-kitcat, and smag, all at 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2016: 1FEB 2019: 1AUG 2020: 1DEC 2020: 1SEP 2022: 1NOV 2022: 1JUL 2023: 1JUN 2024: 1DEC 2025: 1MAR 2026: 1APR 2026: 1JUN 2026: 1
JAN 2016JUN 2026

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 · 3 hand-coded · 9 unlabelled

Operator · 12 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 12 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01matlab-terminal-server0★20 daysliveopen sourceTerminal integration for MATLAB that enables command-line tool usage within the MATLAB environment.
  2. 02python-kitcat0★2 moliveopen sourceA Matplotlib backend for rendering plots directly in the terminal using Kitty graphics.
  3. 03smag0★4 moliveopen sourceCreates graphs from command-line output and displays them in the terminal.
  4. 04python-plotext0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourcePython library for plotting graphs directly in the terminal.
  5. 05ttyplot0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal application that plots incoming numeric data from standard input as a live-updating graph for monitoring metrics.
  6. 06python-plotille0★6 mostaleliveopen sourcePython library that generates terminal plots using braille characters.
  7. 07python-termgraph0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand-line tool and library for drawing basic graphs in the terminal.
  8. 08lowcharts0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDraws low-resolution graphs in a terminal.
  9. 09tdl_terminal_directmedia_library0★2 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceProvides a graphical library that uses the terminal as a display for graphics.
  10. 10python-qrcode_terminal0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourcePython library that draws QR codes directly inside a terminal window.
  11. 11stag0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceStreaming bar graph in the terminal from data passed through stdin.
  12. 12python-distribution0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCreates ASCII graphical histograms in the terminal from data using simple Python scripts.

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