🚧 This project is under active development. Breaking changes may occur.

Rustrix is a terminal-based animation project that simulates a "falling text" effect, inspired by scenes from the movie The Matrix. Characters flow down the terminal screen in a randomized, visually dynamic manner.

This project was created to learn how to define and handle command-line arguments and implement smooth terminal animations using Rust. Mastering CLI arguments has significantly benefited my other Rust projects by providing flexible runtime configurations.

• Control animation behavior via command-line arguments:
  • Text color
  • Language (character set)
  • Font size (character scaling)
  • Animation speed
  • Text density
  • Randomized character mode
  • Rainbow color mode
• Smooth terminal animations using crossterm
• Custom random number generator to control character appearance probabilities

• Rust v1.86
• clap v4.5
• crossterm v0.28
• ctrlc v3.4
• rand v0.8

cargo build --release

target/release/rustrix --help

target/release/rustrix --version

target/release/rustrix -l bin

or

target/release/rustrix --language bin

target/release/rustrix -C red

or

target/release/rustrix --color red

target/release/rustrix -r

or

target/release/rustrix --random

target/release/rustrix -R

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target/release/rustrix --rainbow

target/release/rustrix -v slow

or

target/release/rustrix --velocity slow

target/release/rustrix -d 0.2

or

target/release/rustrix --density 0.2

• Create a WebGL-based version to run animations in browsers
• Develop a Firefox extension/theme featuring the animation

MIT License

itsakeyfut

Feel free to contact me for collaboration or job opportunities.