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asciiquarium

Display an animated ASCII art aquarium

TLDR

Run the aquarium

$ asciiquarium
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Run in transparent mode
$ asciiquarium -t
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Run with classic colors
$ asciiquarium -c
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SYNOPSIS

asciiquarium [-t] [-c]

DESCRIPTION

asciiquarium displays an animated ASCII art aquarium in your terminal. It features swimming fish, a castle, seaweed, and bubbles, providing a relaxing screensaver-like animation.
The program runs until interrupted and adapts to terminal size.

PARAMETERS

-t

Transparent background
-c
Classic mode (fewer colors)

CONTROLS

Press q or Ctrl+C to exit.

CAVEATS

Requires Term::Animation Perl module. Works best with 256-color terminal support. High CPU usage on some systems.

HISTORY

asciiquarium was written by Kirk Baucom as a Perl script providing terminal entertainment through animated ASCII art.

SEE ALSO

cmatrix(1), sl(6), cowsay(1)

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