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cacademo, cacafire - libcaca's demonstration applications
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)libcaca 2006-9-23 libcaca(1)
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Changes between 0.99.beta18 and 0.99.beta17
o new 'cacaclock' utility
o improved FIGlet support
o improved Python and Ruby bindings
o numerous improvements and bugfixes
Changes between 0.99.beta17 and 0.99.beta16
o new dirty rectangle framework for accelerated rendering
o new <conio.h> compatible header for old DOS software porting
o XCode and Visual Studio build improvements
o Unicode support in the X11 driver
o triangle texture mapping
o improved HTML output
o new troff output
o improved Ruby and .NET bindings
o new comprehensive PHP bindings
o new Java bindings
o Cocoa driver enhancements
o support for ANSI colour in FIGlet and TOIlet fonts
o documentation updates
o numerous improvements and bugfixes
Changes between 0.99.beta16 and 0.99.beta15
o many build fixes, especially for nonstandard platforms
Changes between 0.99.beta15 and 0.99.beta14
o libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity
Changes between 0.99.beta14 and 0.99.beta13
o internal FIGlet font support
o use C99 types in public headers
o runtime support for output drivers
o BBcode export support
Changes between 0.99.beta13 and 0.99.beta12
o device-dependent cursor support
o event API rewrite
o minor API improvements and extensions
o img2txt improvements
o Ruby bindings
o Massive C# bindings improvements
o Python sample code
o Visual Studio build solution
Changes between 0.99.beta12 and 0.99.beta11
o support for 90-degree canvas rotation
o better behaviour when trying to output Unicode on an ASCII terminal
o the built-in font now supports the Geometric Shapes, Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms and Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode blocks
o new rotozoom effect in cacademo
o Cocoa output driver for Mac OS X
o preliminary .NET bindings
o many bugfixes and documentation changes
Changes between 0.99.beta11 and 0.99.beta10
o fixed compilation of the C++ bindings
o fixed bugs in cucul_import_memory(), cucul_set_canvas_size()
o implemented caca_set_display_title() for ncurses and S-Lang
o minor bugfixes
Changes between 0.99.beta10 and 0.99.beta9
o new debug mode
o blitting canvases now makes use of the canvas' handle coordinates
o import functions can read streamed data
o attribute to colorspace transformations
o added katakana and hiragana glyphs to the built-in font
o many bugfixes and documentation changes
Changes between 0.99.beta9 and 0.99.beta8
o support for blink, bold, italics and underline attributes
o allow to import and export zero-sized canvases
o fixed Imlib2 support in cacaview
o fixed buffer overlows in the file importer
o big documentation updates
Changes between 0.99.beta8 and 0.99.beta7
o allow to build the X11 and GL drivers as separate plugins
o support for fullwidth Unicode characters
o improved cucul_flip() and cucul_rotate()
o minor bugfixes and documentation updates
Changes between 0.99.beta7 and 0.99.beta6
o transparency support in the UTF-8 importer and exporter
o optimised triangle fill routine
o updated C++ bindings
Changes between 0.99.beta6 and 0.99.beta5
o ANSI importer now handles transparency and UTF-8
o Unicode support was broken for about 10% of the set
o various memory leaks were fixed
Changes between 0.99.beta5 and 0.99.beta4
o implemented cucul_getchar() and cucul_get_color()
o handle transparency in the IRC export
o new cropping and expanding filters
o full Unicode support in the OpenGL driver
o portability fixes for 64-bit architectures, Win32 and MS-DOS
o all demos except cacafire were merged into cacademo
Changes between 0.99.beta4 and 0.99.beta3
o added a compatibility layer for pre-1.x libcaca applications
o fixed manpage generation
o minor bugfixes and documentation updates
Changes between 0.99.beta3 and 0.99.beta2
o libcaca functions use errno for error reporting
o updated C++ bindings
o minor improvements, bugfixes and documentation updates
Changes between 0.99.beta2 and 0.99.beta1
o ANSI importer
o functions use errno for error reporting
o updated C++ bindings
o .NET bindings
o cacadraw, an ANSI viewer that will evolve into an editor
o Unicode input and output support for SLang and ncurses
o built-in fonts work on Win32
Changes between 0.9 and 0.99.beta1
o license switched to WTFPL
o libcaca was split into libcucul, a standalone text manipulation backend, and libcaca, the display and user input frontend
o Unicode support
o TrueColor (more than 16 colours) support
o Floyd-Steinberg dithering
o gamma correction
o export functions for HTML, IRC, ANSI, SVG, PostScript, TGA...
o builtin fonts for device-independent bitmap output
o various text transformation routines (rotation, horizontal flip...)
o OpenGL renderer
o kernel mode to build libcaca programs into a bootable x86 kernel
o cacaserver, a telnet server that can be hooked to libcaca applications
o img2irc, an image to IRC conversion utility
Changes between 0.8 and 0.9
o fix for a buffer overflow in the line rendering
o fixed resizing in the ncurses and slang drivers
o aspect ratio and finer zoom support in cacaview
o minor compilation fixes
Changes between 0.7 and 0.8
o window resizing support
o native Win32 port
o autorepeat emulation in the ncurses and slang drivers
o support for more keycodes in the ncurses and slang drivers
o cacaplas, a plasma animation example
o cacamoir, a moire circles animation example
o MSVC project file
Changes between 0.6 and 0.7
o many bugfixes in the event handling
o cacaball, a metaball animation example
Changes between 0.5 and 0.6
o 30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine
o mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11 driver
o X11 is now the preferred driver
o improved documentation
o minor bugfixes
Changes between 0.4 and 0.5
o palette optimisation for the S-Lang driver to work around the colour pair shortage bug
o minor compilation fix
Changes between 0.3 and 0.4
o preliminary X11 graphics driver
o support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers
o honour the CACA_DRIVER, CACA_GEOMETRY and CACA_FONT environment variables
o more documentation
Changes between 0.2 and 0.3
o antialiasing support
o dithering, antialiasing and background mode can now be selected at runtime or in the environment using the CACA_BACKGROUND,
CACA_DITHERING and CACA_ANTIALIASING variables
o alpha channel support in cacaview
o BMP loading support in cacaview even if Imlib2 is not present
o cacafire, a libcaca port of aafire
Changes between 0.1 and 0.2
o rendering now uses 256 colour pairs instead of 16
o mouse support for ncurses
o ncurses is now the preferred backend
o arbitrary color depth and bitmasks in the bitmap renderer
o cacaview, an image viewer based on libcaca
New in 0.1
o initial release
o slang, ncurses and conio drivers
o basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives
o colour bitmap blitting
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