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Details for ASCIIQuarium (UNOFFICIAL)

License

  • GPL-2.0-or-later

Last updated

  • 27 July 2025 - latest/stable
  • 27 July 2025 - latest/edge

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Asciiquarium is an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art

This program displays an aquarium/sea animation using ASCII art

Usage

There are no command-line arguments.

While running:

  • q: quit
  • r: redraw (will recreate all entities)
  • p: toggle pause

Contributors

Pretty much all of the ASCII art was done by Joan Stark: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/

Anything that she didn't do, I don't have a source for.

Snap maintainer's note

This is NOT an official distribution of ASCIIquarium, for support on using this snap please refer to the snap's own issue tracker:

 Issues · brlin-tw/asciiquarium-snap
 https://github.com/brlin-tw/asciiquarium-snap/issues

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