Create animated ASCII-art for the command line almost instantly!

Overview

clippy

Create and play colored 🟥 🟩 🟦 or colorless ⬛️ ⬜️ animated, or static, ASCII-art in the command line!

clippy can help if you are wanting to;

  • Develop a rogue-like ASCII game
  • Develop word games (animate text)
  • Develeop TUI's or CUI's
  • Develop a Terminal screensaver
  • Create animated logos for your scripts
  • Make ASCII-art
  • Make coloured ASCII art
  • Make animated ASCII art
  • Only use the Python standard library!

State

OPEN TO CONTRIBUTIONS

Example Animation

Get this clip From this txt file/s!

.................
........~...v....
.........../|....
.....v..../_|__..
.........\-----/.
~~~~~~~~~`~~~~~~'

How clippy works

clippy looks at all the txt files in a directory, and sequentially prints each file to the console in the same line/column position. If the color flaf is passed, it maps colors onto each frame.

Each txt file acts as a 'frame' of the clip; Minor variations between these text files creates the animation!

Make your own animations

Steps

  1. Create a sub-directory inside the 'art' directory. Eg: under sea/boats. Give it a meaningful name eg: "small_boat_1" for a sailing boat animation
clip
   ├───art
   ├───animals
   ...
   ...
   └───sea
       └───boats
           └───small_boat_1
  1. In this folder create 2 sub-directories: 'ascii' and 'color'
clip
   ├───art
   ├───animals
   ...
   ...
   └───sea
       └───boats
           └───small_boat_1
               ├───ascii
               └───color
  1. In the 'ascii' sub-directory create a base/template txt file. Your ASCII-art template will live in here. Do it yourself or get ideas from https://www.asciiart.eu/ Eg: your base might have some ASCII-art like this in it (or anything you want!)
 clip
  ├───art
  ├───animals
  ...
  ...
  └───sea
      └───boats
          └───small_boat_1
              ├───ascii
              |       └───small_boat_1a.txt
              |       └───small_boat_1b.txt
              |       ...
              |       ...
              |       └───small_boat_1h.txt
              └───color

The text file might look something like this:

.................
........~...v....
.........../|....
.....v..../_|__..
.........\-----/.
~~~~~~~~~`~~~~~~'

  1. Make copies of this file, and in each copy, make some minor changes!

For the example below I've shifted the boat left, and added a seagull:

.....\,/.........
~...v............
.../|............
../_|__..........
.\-----/.........
~`~~~~~~'~~~~~~~~

  1. Run clip.py and pass the relative path of the directory containing your txt files (frames), pass it the speed (1-100), and pass it the number of cycles to run (1-1000)

  2. Enjoy and contribute your art here! Submit a pull request of your art to this repo!

ROADMAP

  1. Update steps and add steps to do color
  2. Build library of ASCII-art and animated ASCII-art
  3. Auto-colour terminal art
  4. Generative ASCII-art
Owner
Connor
Honours Electrical/Computer Engineer + Python dev supplementing these skills with HTML / CSS / JavaScript. Building a web automation tool
Connor
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