libcaca
libcaca is a software library that converts images into colored ASCII art. It includes the library itself, and several programs including cacaview, an image viewer that works inside a terminal emulator, and img2txt, which can convert an image to other text-based format.
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Developer(s) | Sam Hocevar and Jean-Yves Lamoureux |
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Initial release | November 22, 2003 (0.1 release)[1] |
Stable release | 0.9
/ February 2, 2004[2] |
Preview release | 0.99.beta19
/ May 16, 2014[3] |
Repository | ![]() |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Unix-like, Microsoft Windows, DOS, and OS X[4] |
Available in | English |
License | Free software: WTFPLv2[4] |
Website | github |
![](../I/m/Wikipedia-Ascii-libcaca.svg.png)
An example Wikipedia logo generated using libcaca 0.99.beta18
libcaca has been used in a variety of programs, including FFmpeg, VLC media player, and MPlayer.[5][6][7]
libcaca is free software, licensed under Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License version 2.
Projects using libcaca
gollark: Yes, it slightly doesn't verify that.
gollark: It has to be slightly shorter to fit the key (although that's not *necessary* and there's an option to not show), and I also don't want giant long spammy ones much.
gollark: ++userdata get bismuth
gollark: * apiobee
gollark: The max is a very conservative 256 chars for now.
References
- Hocevar, Sam. "Release 0.1 svn log". Retrieved 17 January 2013.
- Hocevar, Sam. "Release 0.9 svn log". Retrieved 17 January 2013.
- Hocevar, Sam. "libcaca wiki edit on the announcement of 0.99.beta19". Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- Hocevar, Sam. "libcaca Homepage". Caca Labs. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
- FFmpeg team. "FFmpeg 1.0 release notes". Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- VideoLAN Organization. "VLC Media Player: modules/caca". VLC Media Player documentation. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- MPlayer team. "libcaca – Color ASCII Art library". MPlayer documentation. 4.10. Retrieved 18 January 2013.CS1 maint: location (link)
- GStreamer team. "cacasink". GStreamer Good Plugins 1.0 Plugins Reference Manual. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
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