Show HN: Matrix rain, Conway's Game of Life and Mandelbrot set for terminals

Post by akinomyoga » Sat, Mar 07, 2020, 11:23 PM UTC

meanmrmustard92 wrote: post #30

This is fantastic. What arguments should I pass ./cxxmatrix to get the mandelbrot set or game of life? Can't seem to get it to work / couldn't figure it out from the repo.

Post by WantonQuantum » Sun, Mar 08, 2020, 3:42 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #13

Oh boy, neither GCC nor Clang liked the Unicode one bit: $ make 2>&1 | head c++ -std=c++17 -Wall -Wextra -Os -MD -MP -MF cxxmatrix.dep -c -o cxxmatrix.o cxxmatrix.cpp In file included from cxxmatrix.cpp:595: glyph.inl:78:2: error: converting to execution character set: Invalid argument 78 | {U'�', 21, {127, 65, 65, 65, 65, 65, 127, }}, | ^~~~ glyph.inl:79:2: error: converting to execution character set: Invalid argum…

Post by Tagbert » Sun, Mar 08, 2020, 3:52 AM UTC

Tagbert wrote: post #26

Back in the 80s when most people were using DOS text screens, we would sometime play a joke on a friend/coworker. We would get on their computer and run a small terminate-and-stay-resident (background process) program called rain.com. It would sit in the background while they ran their word processor or spreadsheet. After some time, it would cause one character to “fall” down the screen. They would see it happen and…

Post by justinhj » Sun, Mar 08, 2020, 5:40 PM UTC

meanmrmustard92 wrote: post #30

This is fantastic. What arguments should I pass ./cxxmatrix to get the mandelbrot set or game of life? Can't seem to get it to work / couldn't figure it out from the repo.

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