🦀 TARTS: Terminal Arts 🎨

BLAZINGLY FAST terminal screensavers written in Rust!

tarts (shortcut from Terminal Arts) is a collection of MEMORY SAFE terminal-based screen savers that bring visual delight to your command line. Built with ZERO-COST ABSTRACTIONS, these screen savers run efficiently while providing stunning visual effects.

✨ Features

• 🌧️ Matrix Rain: Experience the famous "Matrix" digital rain effect right in your terminal
• 🧫 Conway's Game of Life: Watch the classic cellular automaton evolve before your eyes
• 🧩 Maze Generation: Get lost in procedurally generated mazes
• 🐦 Boids: Witness the emergent flocking behavior of these simulated birds
• 🧊 3D Cube: Renders a rotating 3D cube using terminal graphics with braille patterns for higher resolution.
• 🦀 Crab: Animated crabs walking across your screen, interacting with each other and the environment.

🚀 Installation

Install directly using cargo:

cargo install tarts

or you can use it like a library for your own TUI app!

🛠️ Usage

To use the screen savers, run the executable with the desired screen saver's name as an argument:

tarts matrix  # The classic digital rain effect
tarts life    # Conway's Game of Life
tarts maze    # Watch a maze generate itself
tarts boids   # Bird-like flocking simulation
tarts cube    # 3d rotating cube using braille patterns
tarts crab    # Ferris the crab with collisions

Press q or Esc to exit (or even Ctrl+C).

⚙️ Configuration

Not implemented yet. I think it should be toml file where you can set options for effects.

🧪 Development

This project uses standard Rust tooling:

# Build the project
cargo build --release

# Run tests
cargo test

# Benchmark performance
cargo bench

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit pull requests, report bugs, and suggest features.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

More?

• Args parser to run with configuration (yaml or something)
• add rotating donut? https://www.a1k0n.net/2011/07/20/donut-math.html
• add pipes? https://asciinema.org/a/427066
• add cellular automation like https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/z70mg3/cellularautomatonnvim_my_first_plugin/