[gnuastro-devel] [task #15194] Animated demos of Gnuastro in action

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?15194>

                 Summary: Animated demos of Gnuastro in action
                 Project: GNU Astronomy Utilities
            Submitted by: makhlaghi
            Submitted on: Mon 25 Feb 2019 07:40:30 PM UTC
         Should Start On: Mon 25 Feb 2019 12:00:00 AM UTC
   Should be Finished on: Mon 25 Feb 2019 12:00:00 AM UTC
                Category: Webpage
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Enhancement
                  Status: Postponed
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

There are some nice tools to save what is being done on the terminal to a
low-volume animated formats like SVG or GIF file that can be displayed on a
webpage easily. This is very good for demonstration purposes on the webpage.

For example the asciicast2gif <https://github.com/asciinema/asciicast2gif>
package which uses the outputs of asciinema <https://asciinema.org/>.
asciinema is very interesting: you run it and it saves everything that is
typed/printed on the terminal along with a time stamp in a plain text file.
asciicast2gif then converts that information into a graphic rendering of the
terminal as a GIF image!

Alternatively, svg-term-cli <https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli/> does
a similar thing, but generates animated SVG files (very good display of fonts
sharply on the monitor since its vector graphics).

On asciicast2gif's README, there are also links to some alternatives
<https://github.com/asciinema/asciicast2gif#alternatives>: 




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