This app is highly inspired by cmatrix project.
It turns your command line into a matrix-like terminal (preview).
However, it has some unique features such as an interactive mode, changing the alphabet, and changing the line length.
In interactive mode, symbols fall only when you're typing text with your keyboard.
It also maps keys' position to symbols' position, so if you type from the left, symbols fall from the left.
All you need is just run it and follow the white rabbit.
Type-matrix has a few options, you can find them if you pass --help option.
If you run it without any options they will be the default.
Available options:
-h --help show this help message
-i --interactive matrix falls only when you're typing.
so you can impress your friends with your hacker skills B)
-c --color set matrix main color (default=green)
Available colors:
black, blue, cyan, green, magenta, red, white, yellow
-r --rainbow turn on matrix disco mode. (ignores --color)
-b --bold enable random bold symbol generation (default=disabled)
-f --fps set matrix frames per second limit (default=15)
-l --length set maximum length of a line tail (default=8)
-d --deviation set minimum length of a line via deviation (default=3)
this option calculates minimum length as a difference between
length value and deviation value, so for example:
[length=8 deviation=3 -> min_length = 8-3 = 5]
-a --alphabet set matrix alphabet as a single string
example: -alph abc123
-s --screensaver exit the program if any key is pressed
-m --message print some message to the center of the screen
-C --message-color set message main color
Available colors:
black, blue, cyan, green, magenta, red, white, yellow
Normal mode:
Interactive mode (I'm typing here):
This project uses conan package manager
and CMake for building automation, so you need to install them first.
If you don't like package managers, you also can link all the libraries manually.
Now the project has automation scripts for building, you can find all necessary instructions here.