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clainstone/cbirds
A flock of birds in your terminal: Craig Reynolds' boids, in braille in any terminal and as sprites in Kitty and Ghostty. One C99 program, no dependencies. Linux and macOS
cbirds is a terminal screensaver that simulates Craig Reynolds' boids — flocking birds — rendered as braille dots, sextant blocks, or graphical sprites via the Kitty graphics protocol. It's a single dependency-free C99 program with options like hawks, multiple flocks, matrix rain, depth, trails, and colors, running on Linux and macOS.
Why now: It was featured on Hacker News, likely due to its recent releases and eye-catching demos of a polished, zero-dependency terminal visual toy.
Who it is for: Terminal enthusiasts, ricers, and developers who enjoy eye-candy TUI screensavers and creative-coding demos.
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Stars over our 459 snapshots: 92 to 188, since 5 d ago.
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- Yhn Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal 3 d ago
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