Animatable screen using CSS animations

wader / ansisvg

Convert ANSI to SVG

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Animatable screen using CSS animations #42

Closed wader closed 8 months ago

wader commented 8 months ago

It struck me that maybe one can use CSS animations to created a animated screen? but to do it probably some more things needs to be in place:

How to capture control codes? Run subprocess with a pty?
- Interactive or script ala https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs?
Much more complete ANSI decoder, cursor movements, draw instructions etc
Render to a screen buffer somehow at certain FPS or when things change?
Render SVG using CSS to animate

wader commented 8 months ago

But on the other hand it quite nice that the source is kind of small and easy to overlook atm, maybe has enough features :)

patrislav1 commented 8 months ago

If I had a use case like that I’d probably just use asciinema and a companion tool, such as https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli

wader commented 8 months ago

Doh! true and now i remember i probably played around with some of those tools before doing ansisvg :) let's keep ansisvg focused on "screenshotting" for now :)