kinet

Kinetic Art displayed on terminal using ncurses.

Todo

• Dynamic size update based on window size
• User parameter to define the trial angle
• Arrow key binding to change the rate of animation
• Arrow key binding to change direction of travel => clockwise and anticlockwise
• User parameter to set the background and foreground color
• Default background and foreground color set to same as terminal color theme ref
  • 20.04, gnome-terminal - gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Profile:/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles/
  • 20.04, gnome-terminal - cd ~/.config/dconf/ && dconf dump / > dconf_settings.txt && cat dconf_settings.txt
  • 20.04, terminator - cat ~/.config/terminator/config
  • How to access colors? => use terminfo database, term.h, getcap, tgetent => method that returns terminal capabilities,

Usage

Installation

Install from apt

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maker-ATOM/apt-repo/master/public.key | sudo apt-key add -

echo "deb https://maker-atom.github.io/apt-repo stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/maker-ATOM.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install kinet

OR

Build from source

git clone git@github.com:maker-ATOM/kinet.git

cd kinet
cmake -B build
cmake --build build

To install the file so that it can be executable from anywhere while being in the terminal,

cd build
make
sudo make install

Execution

kinet # With default trail angle of 120 degrees, Background color - Black(0,0,0), Foreground color - White(255,255,255)

kinet -t 90 -b 255,0,0 -f 0,0,255 # Parameters set to trail angle 90 degrees, Background color - Red(255,0,0), Foreground color - Blue(0,0,255)

Parameters

-t degrees   Trail angle in degrees ranging from 0 to 180
-b r,g,b     RGB color for background ranging from 0 to 255
-f r,g,b     RGB color for foreground ranging from 0 to 255

Dependencies

ncurses, CMake