Libcaca

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libcaca
Developer(s) Sam Hocevar and Jean-Yves Lamoureux
Initial release November 22, 2003 (2003-11-22)(0.1 release)[1]
Stable release v0.9 / February 2, 2004 (2004-02-02)[2]
Preview release v0.99.beta18 / April 6, 2012 (2012-04-06)[3]
Development status Active
Written in C
Operating system Unix-like, Microsoft Windows, DOS, and OS X[4]
Available in English
License Free software: WTFPLv2[4]
Website caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca

libcaca is a software library that converts pixel information into colored ASCII art. It includes the library itself, and several programs including cacaview, an image viewer works inside a terminal emulator, and img2txt, which can convert an image to other text-based format.

libcaca has been used in a variety of programs, including the famous FFmpeg and MPlayer.[5][6]

libcaca is free software, licensed under Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License version 2.

The authors of Libcaca also wrote Libpipi, an image processing library. Pipi stands for "Pathetic Image Processing Interface". Its goals are to reimplement ImageMagick and its derivatives with speed and quality in mind, as well as implementing better quality algorithms than GIMP.

Projects using libcaca

An example Wikipedia logo generated using libcaca 0.99.beta18

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hocevar, Sam. "Release 0.1 svn log". Retrieved 17 January 2013. 
  2. ↑ Hocevar, Sam. "Release 0.9 svn log". Retrieved 17 January 2013. 
  3. ↑ Hocevar, Sam. "Release 0.99.beta18 svn log". Retrieved 17 January 2013. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hocevar, Sam. "libcaca Homepage". Caca Labs. Retrieved 17 January 2013. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 FFmpeg team. "FFmpeg 1.0 release notes". Retrieved 17 January 2013. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 MPlayer team. "libcaca – Color ASCII Art library". MPlayer documentation. 4.10. Retrieved 18 January 2013. 
  7. ↑ GStreamer team. "cacasink". GStreamer Good Plugins 1.0 Plugins Reference Manual. Retrieved 18 January 2013. 
  8. ↑ VideoLAN Organization. "VLC Media Player: modules/caca". VLC Media Player documentation. Retrieved 18 January 2013. 

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