Somehow Not The First Reblog - Tumblr Posts
Much better GIFs:
There are two more of them below the cut.
If you're on a desktop, open these in a separate tab* at 100% scale or use something like smart upscale.
(It doesn't matter what specifically you use, just look at these with integer scaling.)
(*assuming that there is an option to open in a separate tab. I don't see one as I'm drafting this, but I think that's just because I just uploaded the GIFs right now.)
I put a lot of effort into changing the character set just for BigBlueTerminal.
(A lot of effort mostly because I'm dumb and didn't check the linked blog post about its creation. I found the font through NerdFonts initially. [Which also added to the difficulty, because of all the additional characters. {That aren't bitmaps.}])
Aside from the font, this is also a newer version of the project. (1.1.0 I think. 1.2.0 didn't change anything visually.)
Droplets now spawn per column, and not just at a fixed rate regardless of width.
Droplets have a chance to spawn somewhere other than the top of the screen.
Additionally, the screen capture method is better, leading to more correct-looking colors.
Finally, because the font isn't anti-aliased, the GIF doesn't have to waste colors on the palette for grayscales.
TLDR; The GIFs are better.
For the -1 people who asked, this doesn't mean there's going to be an update. It's going to sit until I remember it again someday.
I'm only making this post because they tagged what I thought of as a fairly bad GIF as #art, and I realized that I haven't uploaded the better GIFs here.
(I don't think it deserves to be #art though.)
I made a digital rain thing.
Here's a gif:
GitHub and other info under the cut.
It's a C# .NET project available as source code, a Nuget package, or a GitHub release.
Both the source and Nuget versions require you to have dotnet installed, but the GitHub releases are self-contained.
If you don't want to run some random executable, here's a YouTube video that is just 30 minutes of it running.
It's quite hackable and modifiable. As an example, there's a branch with a bunch of pride flag colors.