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Comment by sengork | Hacker News Reader

aafire(1) is fun too, especially in colour with fixed term font.

Likewise aaxine(1) which renders videos in ASCII art.

With friends using VLC on their linux box and unaware of the beauty of libaa/libcaca, I'd type:

    vlc --vout caca videofilename.ext

and then look at them being scared/curious/amazed in that order!

Hey, cool. Here's how to do that with `mpv` on macOS:

    $ brew install mpv --with-libcaca
    $ mpv --vo=caca --really-quiet videofilename.ext

asciiquarium and pipes, too.

I just discovered asciiworld. It can show you a worldmap with day/night shading, geodesic lines to IPs and satellites overhead. Amazing!