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NOTCURSES III: THE SAGA CONTINUES (1080P)

Nick Black

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  • Presented by Nick Black, creator of Notcurses
  • Linked in the descriptiondankamongmen/notcurses

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Nick Black demonstrates the capabilities of Notcurses 2.3.0, showcasing Sixel and Kitty bitmap graphics integrated into terminal user interfaces.

Last week (2021-05-09) I cut Notcurses 2.3.0, containing most of the work necessary for Notcurses 3.0.0. In particular, Notcurses now supports portable (Sixel + Kitty) terminal bitmaps, wholly integrated into the multiplanar character semigraphics model. The known universe's most powerful TUI library just became a lot more powerful. Hack on! github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses. Notcurses 2.3.0 is dedicated to the memory of Dan Kaminsky, hacker and friend. We'll miss you, DanK.

Why it's here

4 people recommend this

What people say. Recommended for its mind-blowing demonstration of advanced character and bitmap graphics inside a terminal.

mprovoston Hacker News • Recommends

On “Console Desktop Guide (2018)”

If you haven't seen the work Nick Black is doing with notcurses 0 it's pretty amazing to see what it can do with bitmapped graphics in a modern terminal. Makes me wonder if we're ready for a resurgence of TUIs with full motion graphics. 0 link to this video

gadrevon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]”

Ok, if you're looking into notcurses, you may want to watch this: link to this video (~ 6') the WTF effect that video had on me lasted quite a while. I still can't describe it.

dankamongmenon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Notcurses: Blingful TUIs and Character Graphics”

hey there! this is my project of close to two years. happy to answer any questions anyone might have! if you haven't seen it, you might enjoy the Notcurses III hype video: link to this video

easygeneson Hacker News • Recommends

On “TUIs”

It’s buried in that list, but Notcurses is fast and challenges assumptions about what can be done in a terminal. link to this video

u/sosodankin r/C_Programming • Mentions

notcurses, next-generation tuis/character graphics, expands to macos and windows Hey there! I'm the lead developer of Notcurses, a powerful library for TUIs and terminal graphics. It's a pure C core, and quite possibly the last major C project of my life after 20 years of almost exclusive C development. I started it in November of 2019, and have been dumping 40- and 60-hour weeks into it ever since. The focus has been on portability (across terminals), capability, and performance, and C has served me well in that quest. I'm pretty proud of the render/rasterizer core, found within src/lib/render.c. I've got a tremendous benchmarking framework built up around the core, and track changes in pe…

k4r1on Hacker News • Mentions

On “WordPerfect for UNIX (1992)”

You should try some modern terminals fx.: - Contour link - Wezterm link Both fast terminals with modern features and cross platform. Also checkout Notcurses: link Here is a video of the Notcurses demo running in a terminal: link to this video

ho_schion Hacker News • Mentions

On “Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful”

…these people keep maintaining it. And provide upgrade paths to enhanced versions? I’m in!“. HiDPI, Wayland, new Widgets, new renderers and a scene-graph. PS: If you need to keep it small and simple and address professional (power) users I suggest a TUI with the venerable ncurses . Or notcurses . Notcurses: link . Demo of Ncurses (For the lulz): link to this video…

u/theldusin r/C_Programming • Mentions

On “Terminal Game development begginer”

From what you described, it seems that notcurses serves exactly what you want: it allows you to draw in the terminal with high performance, variable amount of colors, has routines for handling input and so on. I have to confess that I've never used it, so maybe I misunderstood the purpose of the library, but it's worth checking it out. ps: there is also quite impressive demo videos on YT, definitely a must-watch for those who like demoscene.

u/sosodankin r/C_Programming • Mentions

On “Created a terminal-based 3D graphics library written in C”

you might want to check out Notcurses! link to this video Github

u/trailing_zero_countin r/C_Programming • Mentions

On “ASCII in Terminal”

Notcurses can do anything link to this video however a library more focused on thus style of game is libtcod