Yes, you can have shaders in the terminal.

https://github.com/junkdog/tachyonfx/blob/main/images/demo.gif?raw=true

Source: https://github.com/junkdog/tachyonfx

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refalo@programming.dev · 17 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Nothing is as impressive as notcurses. Nick Black is a genius

hellofriend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

How tf does that work? Amazing

FizzyOrange@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y

The kitty graphics protocol lets you send images to display in the terminal. I had a play around with it trying to make a similar GUI. The big gotcha is text rendering. You can either stick to normal grid aligned monospace, or I think you could maybe use a texture atlas, but it's not going to be very efficient at all. I haven't got as far as trying that though.

The videos... while they work are probably uncompressed video which is only going to work well over a very fast network.

mcmxci@mimiclem.me · 5 pts · 2y

Very cool!

noproblemmy@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y

That is going to need a disable option for me :-S

zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should