cxxmatrix
Dev tools
terminal animation
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How HN took it
7 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score +0.29.
Execution: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, cool visual effect with good speed and colours
From 3 comments
I like the speed and dynamic aspects. Use of 256 colours means extra shades etc. Simple effect and very good. Now I want to dust off my old snake game and upgrade it to 3D.
rs23296008n1 on HNSo very cool. I just built and installed it on my MacBook. Looks great on Apple's standard terminal, and I think a little bit better even on ITerm 2.
mark_l_watson on HNThis is so cool! Thank you for the great effort.
rolandog on HN
Objections
Fails to compile with GCC and Clang on Unicode glyph data
From 1 comment
Oh boy, neither GCC nor Clang liked the Unicode one bit: ``` $ make 2>&1 | head c++ -std=c++17 -Wall -Wextra -Os -MD -MP -MF cxxmatrix.dep -c -o cxxmatrix.o cxxmatrix.cpp In file…
saagarjha on HN
Laggy in some terminals such as Terminal.app and WSL
From 2 comments
Interestingly, it was exceedingly laggy on Terminal.app for me. iTerm seemingly handled it better.
saagarjha on HNThose terminal matrix rain animations are always super slow for me at higher resolution. Using two cores 100%. Maybe because I run through WSL?
Mashimo on HN
Requests
Document how to launch the Mandelbrot and Game of Life modes
From 1 comment
This is fantastic. What arguments should I pass ./cxxmatrix to get the mandelbrot set or game of life? Can't seem to get it to work / couldn't figure it out from the repo.
meanmrmustard92 on HN
Questions
What arguments enable Mandelbrot or Game of Life?
From 1 comment
This is fantastic. What arguments should I pass ./cxxmatrix to get the mandelbrot set or game of life? Can't seem to get it to work / couldn't figure it out from the repo.
meanmrmustard92 on HN
Alternatives named
cmatrix
From 1 comment
Actually one of the reason why I wrote this program is to test the terminal performances. When I'm searching the benchmark data of Alacritty, I found this issue…
akinomyoga on HN
gomatrix
From 1 comment
A long time ago I wrote gomatrix: https://github.com/GeertJohan/gomatrix It's a Matrix emulator inspired by cmatrix. It doesnt have as many features as this posts one (e.g. just…
GeertJohan on HN
redpill and github-matrix-screensaver
From 2 comments
Great work! This is one of the best rain implementations I've seen. A while back I implemented[0] a (pretty basic) Matrix rain in JavaScript that will pull your latest public…
anderspitman on HNThere is a screensaver that does Matrix rain with GitHub's latest public commits: https://github.com/winterbe/github-matrix-screensaver
pluc on HN