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NOTCURSES III: THE SAGA CONTINUES (1080P)

Nick Black · demo · Watch on YouTube

C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesTesting, debugging & developer toolsComputer graphics & rendering

What it is

A seven-minute demo from the author of Notcurses, a C library for text user interfaces. It shows the 2.3.0 release, which adds Sixel and Kitty bitmap graphics integrated into its multiplane character-graphics model.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN people share it as a striking demonstration of how much graphics a modern terminal can do.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “it's pretty amazing to see what it can do with bitmapped graphics in a modern terminal.”

    Pretty amazing bitmapped graphics in a modern terminal

    mprovost, 2021-08 · Strong recommendation · in “Console Desktop Guide (2018)”

  2. “the WTF effect that video had on me lasted quite a while.”

    Six-minute video with lasting WTF effect

    gadrev, 2021-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]”

  3. “you might enjoy the Notcurses III hype video”

    Author's hype video for Notcurses III

    dankamongmen, 2021-08 · Recommendation · in “Notcurses: Blingful TUIs and Character Graphics”

  4. “Notcurses is fast and challenges assumptions about what can be done in a terminal.”

    Notcurses is fast and challenges terminal assumptions

    easygenes, 2022-03 · Recommendation · in “TUIs”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: notcurses, tui, sixel, kitty graphics, terminal graphics

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