cacafire - Man Page

libcaca's demonstration applications

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

cacademo

cacafire

Description

This manual page documents briefly the cacademo and cacafire programs.

cacademo displays ASCII art effects with animated transitions: metaballs, moire pattern of concentric circles, old school plasma, Matrix-like scrolling.

cacafire displays burning ASCII art flames.

Keys

Enter

forces an effect transition to happen

Space

pauses and resumes the program

Esc

exits the program

Bugs

Please report any bugs you find to <libcaca@lists.zoy.org>.

License

cacademo is covered by the Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License (WTFPL). cacafire is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Authors

cacademo's moire and matrix effects and this manual page were written by Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>.

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> and 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

cacaview(1), aafire(1)

Referenced By

The man page cacademo(1) is an alias of cacafire(1).

2006-9-23 libcaca