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feature request: add support for lolcat #42
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@ehaupt Yes it would be a nice feature to have. It's actually pretty simple to achieve that, though I didn't add it as there are so many filters possible, and I wasn't sure about the best interface. Consider this problem: Filters tend to have a lot of options, and every user would want a slightly different option. So let's say we add an option There are two other ways we can go about:
Arttime already has some files with color filter applied using lolcat for a simple disco effect. Try the following:
To immediately get that same effect on any other art, do something like this (example for text art
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Thank you for your explanation. Other project use an argument to pass arguments to external commands: Eg.:
But your proposed solution is perfectly reasonable. Please feel free to close the issue. |
@ehaupt Btw, there is one more route possible for this. I had tested some color cat filters to see if they work. Most seem to have trouble handling escape sequences. The one filter that more or less works with least hiccups is this ruby implementation of lolcat:
In future with people filing bugs on the maintainers of these filters will make them more resilient, and perhaps the faster C version will also be usable. Here's an example bug: busyloop/lolcat#110. Unfortunately none have 16-color support, they are either 256 color or RGB color... |
It would be nice to have support for a lolcat color filter 馃樅
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