Software:Libcaca

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libcaca
Developer(s)Sam Hocevar and Jean-Yves Lamoureux
Initial releaseScript error: No such module "Date time".(0.1 release)[1]
Stable release
0.9 / February 2, 2004; 22 years ago (2004-02-02)[2]
Preview release
0.99.beta20 / October 19, 2021; 4 years ago (2021-10-19)[3]
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like, Windows, MS-DOS, OS X[4]
Available inEnglish
LicenseFree software: WTFPLv2[4]
An example Wikipedia logo generated using libcaca 0.99.beta18

libcaca is a software library that converts images into colored ASCII art. It includes the library itself, and several programs including cacaview, an image viewer that works inside a terminal emulator, and img2txt, which can convert an image to other text-based formats.

Overview

libcaca has been used in a variety of programs, including FFmpeg, VLC media player, and MPlayer.[5][6][7]

libcaca is free software, licensed under WTFPL version 2.[8]

Projects using libcaca

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hocevar, Sam. "Release 0.1 svn log". http://caca.zoy.org/changeset/208. Retrieved 17 January 2013. 
  2. ↑ Hocevar, Sam. "Release 0.9 svn log". http://caca.zoy.org/changeset/362/libcaca/trunk/NEWS. Retrieved 17 January 2013. 
  3. ↑ Hocevar, Sam. "Release libcaca v0.99.beta20 · cacalabs/libcaca · GitHub". https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca/releases/tag/v0.99.beta20. Retrieved 16 December 2021. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hocevar, Sam. "libcaca Homepage". Caca Labs. http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca. Retrieved 17 January 2013. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 FFmpeg team. "FFmpeg 1.0 release notes". http://ffmpeg.org/archive.html#pr1.0. Retrieved 20 December 2014. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 VideoLAN Organization. "VLC Media Player: modules/caca". VLC Media Player documentation. http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/caca. Retrieved 18 January 2013. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 MPlayer team. "libcaca – Color ASCII Art library". MPlayer documentation. 4.10. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/caca.html. Retrieved 18 January 2013. 
  8. ↑ Martinez, Carlos Garcia (2024-06-03). "Exploring the Artistry and Legacy of ASCII Text Art" (in en-US). https://photo-to-text.com/ascii-text-art/. 
  9. ↑ GStreamer team. "cacasink". GStreamer Good Plugins 1.0 Plugins Reference Manual. http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-good-plugins/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-plugin-cacasink.html. Retrieved 18 January 2013. 




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