cacademo(1)


NAME

   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)





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