A simple project that animates the visibility of characters in a given text file.

Point the pyxl binary at any text file to view it using the animation engine. Here we've loaded up text/logo.txt:

Then use the animation commands to animate visibility changes over the text file. This is a screenshot taken halfway through the "wave" command:

You can perform multiple animations simultaneously which will interact with each other in various ways.

Press the highlighted key to initiate the animation.

• [r]ipple
• fade [o]ut
• fade [i]n
• [w]ave
• wave, stay [u]p

Press q to [q]uit.

The ncurses headers must be available to build this project. On Ubuntu, this can be installed with the libncurses5-dev package. (sudo apt install libncurses5-dev)

Run make in the top-level directory. This produces compiled .o files in obj/, as well as the binary executable in bin/.

Run bin/pyxl path/to/text/file to load up the given text file in the animation engine.