Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of libcaca Tweet

Timestamp:

08/18/2008 06:29:08 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

Sam Hocevar

Comment:

move front page stuff to libcaca

libcaca

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+[[Image(source:/www/logo-caca.png, align=right, border=2, alt="libcaca logo")]]
+
+== Introduction ==
+
+libcaca is a graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals. It is not unlike the famous [http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/ AAlib] library, with the following improvements:
+
+    * Unicode support
+    * 2048 available colours (some devices can only handle 16)
+    * dithering of colour images
+    * advanced text canvas operations (blitting, rotations)
+
+Libcaca works in a text terminal (and should thus work on all Unix systems including Mac OS X) using the S-Lang or ncurses libraries. It also works natively on DOS and Windows.
+
+Libcaca was written by Sam Hocevar and Jean-Yves Lamoureux. It is free software, and can be used, modified and distributed under the terms of the [http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License].
+
+[[Image(source:/www/img/sample.png, align=right, border=2)]]
+
+== Screenshots ==
+
+{{{
+#!comment
+Change those fucking screenshots to proper Trac stuff when 0.11 is in Debian:
+[[Image(source:/www/img/tn-stitch-80x45.jpeg, link=/img/stitch-80x45.png)]]
+}}}
+
+Here are a few libcaca screenshots.
+
+{{{
+#!html
+<table cellspacing="5" border="0">
+  <tr>
+    <td align="center">
+      <a href="/browser/www/img/stitch-80x45.png"><img alt="cacaview"
+         width="73" height="90"
+         src="/browser/www/img/tn-stitch-80x45.jpeg?format=raw" /></a>
+      <br /><small><code>cacaview</code></small>
+    </td>
+    <td align="center">
+      <a href="/browser/www/img/cacaball-80x50.png"><img alt="cacaball"
+         width="101" height="90"
+         src="/browser/www/img/tn-cacaball-80x50.jpeg?format=raw" /></a>
+      <br /><small><code>cacaball</code></small>
+    </td>
+    <td align="center">
+      <a href="/browser/www/img/cacaplas-80x50.png"><img alt="cacaplas"
+         width="101" height="90"
+         src="/browser/www/img/tn-cacaplas-80x50.jpeg?format=raw" /></a>
+      <br /><small><code>cacaplas</code></small>
+    </td>
+    <td align="center">
+      <a href="/browser/www/img/truecolor-32x16.png"><img alt="truecolor"
+         width="87" height="90"
+         src="/browser/www/img/tn-truecolor-32x16.jpeg?format=raw" /></a>
+      <br /><small>TrueColor</small>
+    </td>
+    <td align="center">
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td align="center">
+      <a href="/browser/www/img/unicode-80x24.png"><img alt="unicode"
+         width="120" height="75"
+         src="/browser/www/img/tn-unicode-80x24.jpeg?format=raw" /></a>
+      <br /><small>Unicode</small>
+    </td>
+    <td align="center">
+      <a href="/browser/www/img/swallow-80x32.png"><img alt="swallow"
+         width="120" height="81"
+         src="/browser/www/img/tn-swallow-80x32.jpeg?format=raw" /></a>
+      <br /><small>swallowing applications</small>
+    </td>
+    <td align="center">
+      <a href="/browser/www/img/rotate.png"><img alt="rotation"
+         width="75" height="90"
+         src="/browser/www/img/tn-rotate.jpeg?format=raw" /></a>
+      <br /><small>canvas rotation</small>
+    </td>
+    <td align="center">
+      <a href="/browser/www/img/export.png"><img alt="rotation"
+         width="78" height="90"
+         src="/browser/www/img/tn-export.jpeg?format=raw" /></a>
+      <br /><small>ANSI to PNG</small>
+    </td>
+    <td align="center">
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+}}}
+
 == Download ==
 
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  * [/files/libcaca/libcaca-0.9.tar.gz libcaca-0.9.tar.gz]
  * [/files/libcaca/libcaca-win32-0.9.zip libcaca-win32-0.9.zip]
+
+== Why? ==
+
+{{{
+#!html
+<blockquote><p>
+Que dites-vous ?... C’est inutile ?... Je le sais !
+<br />Mais on ne se bat pas dans l’espoir du succès !
+<br />Non ! non, c’est bien plus beau lorsque c’est inutile !
+<br /><small> -- Edmond Rostand, <i>Cyrano de Bergerac</i> </small>
+</p></blockquote>
+}}}
+
+I am perfectly aware that libcaca is the waste of time it looks to be. No need to tell me about that. I urge you to read Théophile Gautier’s preface to ''Mademoiselle de Maupin'', which also gives an excellent explanation for the name “libcaca”:
+
+{{{
+#!html
+<blockquote><p>
+Il n’y a rien de vraiment beau que ce qui ne peut servir à rien ; tout ce
+qui est utile est laid ; car c’est l’expression de quelque besoin ; et ceux
+de l’homme sont ignobles et dégoûtants, comme sa pauvre et infirme nature. -
+L’endroit le plus utile d’une maison, ce sont les latrines.
+</p></blockquote>
+}}}
+
+As for the name “libcucul”, please refer to the pioneer of modernist Polish fiction:
+
+{{{
+#!html
+<blockquote><p>
+Mais contre le cucul, il n’y a pas de refuge. Courez après moi
+si vous voulez, je m’enfuis la gueule entre les mains. Et voilà,
+tralala, Zut à celui qui le lira !
+<br /><small> -- Witold Gombrowicz, <i>Ferdydurke</i> </small>
+</p></blockquote>
+}}}