metaory / glitcher-cli

Bash CLI to generate animated pseudo-random glitch SVG effects from ASCII characters with randomized parameters

generate animated pseudo random glitch SVG from ASCII characters

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Glitcher Web App is now live! 🎉
metaory.github.io/glitcher-app

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Tip

The following attributes are random

• number of slices
• height of slices
• color channel shifts
• duration of animations
• keyTime of animations
• values of frames

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INSTALLATION

• clone repo
• give execution permissions
• place it in your path

# Clone
git clone [e-mail]:metaory/glitcher-cli.git

# Navigate
cd glitcher-cli

Tip

Temporary usage bash glitcher out.svg hello world

# Give execution permissions
chmod +x glitcher

# Link it somewhere in your $PATH
ln -svf $PWD/glitcher /usr/bin/glitcher

# Use it anywhere
# Create out.svg with 'hello world' content
glitcher out.svg hello world

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SYNOPSIS

glitcher FILE TEXT...

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REQUIREMENTS

• GNU Bash v5+
• GNU bc
• GNU coreutils
  • sort
  • uniq

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TODO

• noise arg
• density arg
• color arg
• font arg
• help

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Caution

Only tested on Linux

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LICENSE

MIT