asciiquarium

Display an animated ASCII art aquarium

TLDR

Run the aquarium

$ asciiquarium

Run in classic mode (only the original 1.0 creatures)

$ asciiquarium -c

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

PARAMETERS

-c

Classic mode: show only the species present in version 1.0.

PREVIEW

   ><(((°>     .
  __         ><>
 (__)   ~  ___
 ||||  ~   |#|

CONTROLS

Press q to quit, r to redraw all entities, or p to toggle pause.

INSTALL

sudo dnf install asciiquarium

sudo pacman -S asciiquarium

sudo apk add asciiquarium

brew install asciiquarium

nix profile install nixpkgs#asciiquarium

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.

RESOURCES

Source code · Homepage