tanim
Endless procedural screensaver animations for your terminal: 20+ pixel-art scenes in true color from a single Rust binary, also playable in the browser via WebAssembly.
Details
- External ID
- 1391413192
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- tanim
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Sept. 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4606712785037151
- Tags
- animation, cli, generative-art, pixel-art, procedural-generation, rust, screensaver, stream-deck, terminal, truecolor, tui, webassembly
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal screensaver animations in rust and webassembly
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Writing a terminal UI wrapper is simple, but crafting 20+ procedural math and pixel-art rendering algorithms compiled to both CLI and WASM requires specialized graphics coding.
What it would actually take: The stack consists of Rust using `crossterm` or `ratatui` for ANSI/true-color terminal rendering, compiled to `wasm32-unknown-unknown` for HTML5 Canvas execution. The primary barrier is not the app scaffold, but designing and optimizing custom mathematical shaders, procedural generation algorithms, and cellular automata that run smoothly in text grids. It demands graphics programming knowledge and procedural art generation skills.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 147 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #88 of 148 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
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