C++ Matrix in terminal
I wrote a simple terminal program of Matrix digital rain.
Features
- Hankaku kana characters as in the original film
- Ten levels of "green"s using terminal 256 color support
- Twinkling effects by adding random brightness
- Diffused reflection effects by cell background colors
Scenes
- Number falls
- Banner - Show command line arguments by shining characters
- "The Matrix" rain - Wikipedia
- Conway's Game of Life - Wikipedia
- Mandelbrot set - Wikipedia
Demo
- cxxmatrix in 80x28 - Youtube
- Mandelbrot set in 479x186 - YouTube
- Highlight scenes - See the animated GIF below
Usage
Requirements: git, C++17 compiler, GNU make, a terminal with 256color support
$ git clone git@github.com:akinomyoga/cxxmatrix.git
$ cd cxxmatrix
$ make
$ ./cxxmatrix 'The Matrix' 'Reloaded'Quit: C-c, Suspend: C-z
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