HTML Canvas in the terminal

https://github.com/madbence/node-drawille-canvas

by lennoff • 12 years ago

78 12 12 years ago

This is very cool. It would be interesting to use this as part of an abstraction layer for HTML5 Canvas games so they could run in the terminal as well as the browser.

thomasahle• 12 years ago

Would such a thing allow the creation of a complete terminal fronted for webkit or so? I would love to be able to do all my browsing from the terminal.

jimktrains22• 12 years ago

Even if it could the quality of images would be abysmal, if even useful.

There are options for browsing in the terminal such as lynx, links, and w3m, obviously they don't have graphics support.

Sir_Cmpwn• 12 years ago

It's possible to view images in certain terminals, with w3m.

https://mediacru.sh/rML4x537Mf0o

Screenshot is xterm. Also supposedly works with urxvt, but I can't get it to work correctly.

tomgg• 12 years ago

I can't speak for the others, but w3m definitely has graphics support.

gcb4• 12 years ago

phantom already does a full headless web kit browser. with screen shot capabilities.

seanewest• 12 years ago

TJ Holowaychuk made something like this a few years ago:

https://github.com/visionmedia/term-canvas

ninjin• 12 years ago

Absolutely wonderful idea, I hope the author had a lot of fun hacking on this.

On a slightly related note, if you have not been exposed to the BB demo using aalib, do not miss out on this gem from the late 90s (if you are on a Linux distribution you can most likely install it using your package manager, e.g. `apt-get install bb`).

http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/

bnegreve• 12 years ago

With aalib, you can even render videos on the terminal. E.g. on Linux:

    mplayer -vo aa video.mpg

Will use aalib to render video.mpg inside the current terminal/console. The quality is not great though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5JLjfCi0mw (Here with Vlc.)

cben• 12 years ago

Use -vo caca for color output via libcaca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur3iEHo6rI8#t=25

HTML Canvas in the terminal

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