telnet 1984.ws ; open the screen to fullscreen - and sit back and remin - What is this tom f00lery????
Looks like high-color ANSI (not Sixel) to me.
I agree - I believe he's doing tricks w/ 24bit color UTF-8... he's the dev of x/84 (defunct) bbs software and I used to love this little module:
----- plasma.py, part of blessed library -----
#!/usr/bin/env python
# std imports
import sys
import math
import time
import timeit
import colorsys
import contextlib
# local
import blessed
def scale_255(val): return int(round(val * 255))
def rgb_at_xy(term, x, y, t):
h, w = term.height, term.width
hue = 4.0 + (
math.sin(x / 16.0)
+ math.sin(y / 32.0)
+ math.sin(math.sqrt(
((x - w / 2.0) * (x - w / 2.0) +
(y - h / 2.0) * (y - h / 2.0))
) / 8.0 + t * 3)
) + math.sin(math.sqrt((x * x + y * y)) / 8.0)
saturation = y / h
lightness = x / w
return tuple(map(scale_255, colorsys.hsv_to_rgb(hue / 8.0, saturation, lightness)))
def screen_plasma(term, plasma_fn, t):
result = ''
for y in range(term.height - 1):
for x in range(term.width):
result += term.on_color_rgb(*plasma_fn(term, x, y, t)) + ' '
return result
@contextlib.contextmanager
def elapsed_timer():
"""Timer pattern, from
https://stackoverflow.com/a/30024601."""
start = timeit.default_timer()
def elapser():
return timeit.default_timer() - start
# pylint: disable=unnecessary-lambda
yield lambda: elapser()
def show_please_wait(term):
txt_wait = 'please wait ...'
outp = term.move_yx(term.height - 1, 0) + term.clear_eol + term.center(txt_wait)
print(outp, end='')
sys.stdout.flush()
def show_paused(term):
txt_paused = 'paused'
outp = term.move_yx(term.height - 1, int(term.width / 2 - len(txt_paused) / 2))
outp += txt_paused
print(outp, end='')
sys.stdout.flush()
def next_algo(algo, forward):
algos = tuple(sorted(blessed.color.COLOR_DISTANCE_ALGORITHMS))
next_index = algos.index(algo) + (1 if forward else -1)
if next_index == len(algos):
next_index = 0
return algos[next_index]
def next_color(color, forward):
colorspaces = (4, 8, 16, 256, 1 << 24)
next_index = colorspaces.index(color) + (1 if forward else -1)
if next_index == len(colorspaces):
next_index = 0
return colorspaces[next_index]
def status(term, elapsed):
left_txt = (f'{term.number_of_colors} colors - '
f'{term.color_distance_algorithm} - ?: help ')
right_txt = f'fps: {1 / elapsed:2.2f}'
return ('\n' + term.normal +
term.white_on_blue + term.clear_eol + left_txt +
term.rjust(right_txt, term.width - len(left_txt)))
def main(term):
with term.cbreak(), term.hidden_cursor(), term.fullscreen():
pause, dirty = False, True
t = time.time()
while True:
if dirty or not pause:
if not pause:
t = time.time()
with elapsed_timer() as elapsed:
outp = term.home + screen_plasma(term, rgb_at_xy, t)
outp += status(term, elapsed())
print(outp, end='')
sys.stdout.flush()
dirty = False
if pause:
show_paused(term)
inp = term.inkey(timeout=None if pause else 0.01)
if inp == '?':
assert False, "don't panic"
elif inp == '\x0c':
dirty = True
if inp in ('[', ']'):
term.color_distance_algorithm = next_algo(
term.color_distance_algorithm, inp == '[')
show_please_wait(term)
dirty = True
if inp == ' ':
pause = not pause
if inp.code in (term.KEY_TAB, term.KEY_BTAB):
term.number_of_colors = next_color(
term.number_of_colors, inp.code == term.KEY_TAB)
show_please_wait(term)
dirty = True
if __name__ == "__main__":
exit(main(blessed.Terminal()))
----- EOF -----
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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
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