Vile: ASCII Art Generator Vile is a simple ASCII-art generator that uses VT100 commands to draw to a terminal. On Linux, the standard terminals are all fast enough to do real-time animations but the default OSX terminal is a bit too slow. For all of my Linux command-line tools though, I use this library to put together 1-second long splash screens for them. The software (both vile.py and the test cases) are provided as public domain works but the images are not. Please keep in mind that the tests are the absolute worst shapes to be trying to do this on. It'll work best on simple, very high-contrast shapes where these are thin and detailed. For a quick demonstration on how to display a single image, see vile-test-bsf-static.py To go to the next level, see a demo on how to animate a few images together here: vile-test-bsf.py Regards, Ryan Balsdon ryanbalsdon@gmail.com