CacaDemo.NET 1.0.0

.NET 10.0 This package targets .NET 10.0. The package is compatible with this framework or higher.
There is a newer version of this package available.
See the version list below for details. 
dotnet tool install --global CacaDemo.NET --version 1.0.0
This package contains a .NET tool you can call from the shell/command line. 
dotnet new tool-manifest
                    


                            if you are setting up this repo
                        

                    

                
dotnet tool install --local CacaDemo.NET --version 1.0.0
This package contains a .NET tool you can call from the shell/command line. 
#tool dotnet:?package=CacaDemo.NET&version=1.0.0
                    


                    

                
nuke :add-package CacaDemo.NET --version 1.0.0

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CacaDemo.NET

This is a dotnet port of cacademo, the demo-effects program that ships with libcaca, which cycles in order through a set of full-screen ASCII/ANSI effects, wiping between them with randomly chosen transitions, written using Caca.NET.

Caca

Installation

dotnet tool install CacaDemo.NET

Run

CacaDemo.NET

Effects

Effect Description
--Plasma Three sine-distance fields summed together under a cycling palette
--Metaballs Additively blended blobs wandering on Lissajous-like paths
--Moire Two XORed concentric-ring discs sliding over each other
--Matrix Falling columns of glyphs, brightest at the head
--Rotozoom A rotating, pulsing zoom over a 256x256 texture, in 24:8 fixed point
--Langton Langton's ants leaving fading trails — built, but as upstream, left out of the rotation

Transitions: circle, star, square, vertical lines, horizontal lines.

Controls

Key Action
Space Pause / resume
Right, Enter Skip forward to the next effect
Left Skip back to the previous effect
Esc, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Z Quit

Licence

cacademo and libcaca are distributed under the WTFPL, and so is this port. See LICENSE.

Product Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
.NET net10.0 is compatible.  net10.0-android was computed.  net10.0-browser was computed.  net10.0-ios was computed.  net10.0-maccatalyst was computed.  net10.0-macos was computed.  net10.0-tvos was computed.  net10.0-windows was computed. 
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Version Downloads Last Updated
1.0.1 104 9/3/2026
1.0.0 92 9/2/2026
1.0.0-rc001 100 9/2/2026