Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

Cool.

Seriously, though, when are we going to see the convergence of terminals and GUI remoting protocols? People have already departed far from Unix pipeline utilities. "TUI" programs are already GUIs in disguise. Why keep pretending that the terminal (as used by TUI programs) is a different kind of thing?

Make me think of the infamous Unix scene in Jurassic Park.

This would be nice in VR

Well deserved HN #1

Has anyone tried to create 3D fonts? It sounds like a ton of work but might look cool if done correctly.

You could also do really cool text highlights by working with light sources and shader effects

Another feature I'm looking for is smooth scrolling when you hit enter. I've had debates before where they claim it's not possible, that the text must jump one line. But I think it's possible, by shifting the frame buffer up.

last night I was pondering if there was a ghostty plugin that can make my terminal like the opening scroll from a Star Wars movie. Can we make that happen?

Friggin waste of resources

so cool. well done

Dude. Congrats. You actually made a compelling argument to put rust on my machine:P

Expect to see Orhun in here before clicking, not disappointed

temple OS?

Another terminal to murder your battery life

why would you want this?

Terry A. Davis will be proud

This is a great idea. I always wanted KDE konsole to e. g. show images inlined as is. This is possible via magick six:-, but I wanted this to be natively. I want the terminal to be able to work with any data and display it in any way. No need to simulate the 1980s era anymore (except for backwards/legacy support). So great idea here really.

Imagine this with VR dev environments!

What a twist, having textual window manager within a graphical user interface, and that textual window manager implementing bits of graphics.

You'll soon may be able to implement overlapping graphics windows in TUI within GUI.

This is stupid af.

My first reaction: "But why?"

My second reaction: "Oh wait is that TempleOS being cited? This is either awesome or terrible."

Reminds me of TempleOS

> inserted 3D objects in the demo above are actually from the TempleOS codebase itself

Brilliant. The dream lives on! This is the best form of paying respects.

It's walking a fine line between madness and genius, and who knows if it'll ever be practical, but more important is the sense of wonder and "fuck yeah" as King Terry expressed so eloquently.

Thanks. I hate it

y tho?

Excited to see others equally inspired by TempleOS’ 3D feature :)

I tried something similar a few months ago that acts more as a library to ratatui than a separate terminal emulator [0].

Was surprised how far one can get using some off the shelf characters like half-block when rasterizing.

The Glyph protocol mentioned in the blog post is interesting … perhaps custom glyphs could help smooth some of the (literal) rough edges from the low effective resolution of a terminals character grid.

[0] https://github.com/limlabs/ratatui-3d

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Can anyone explain why this is novel? It seems pretty basic?