Yesterday i thought i might fix some bugs in my imagecat routine (printing images to the terminal). But somehow i, uhm, improved things a little too far. If you're now thinking "Oh no, he did it again!", i'm afraid, yes, i did.

This time, i made a 3 minute animated demo with sound, running at (some) FPS in a Linux terminal.

You can find a download of the current version as a tarball or you could clone my public mercurial repo if you prefer that. (Edit: Link to mercurial has changed/updated)

The demo needs quite a few CPAN modules, i'm afraid, including the somewhat hard-to-install SDL bindings. (For SDL, you might have to change a checksum in the Alien::SDL Build.PL and ignore some test errors in SDL as well.) I'm using SDL for the sound output.

Also, your Terminal needs to support full RGB colors /see the Imagecat - show color images in a terminal thread) and have a size of at least 270x60 in size (characters, not pixels).

If you want to avoid the hassle of getting it to work on your system, you can watch the YouTube video instead.

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