Show HN: An Open-source React UI library for ASCII animations

[zekejohn]

Hey HN :)

I made Rune, a composable React library for ASCII animations. It lets you drop in animated ASCII the same way you would an icon component.

Rune converts video into grids of colored ASCII characters that render directly as text in the browser. Brightness maps to character density (@ -> .), and output can be tuned for different levels of detail.

It’s designed to be lightweight and very performance focused, so animations stay smooth even at higher resolutions or if there many playing at a time!

[lewisnewman]

This is awesome! I remember seeing this on the AI Tinkerer's discord server, planning to use it in my next project so everything is text based

[zekejohn]

thank you! lmk if you need any help getting it setup :)

[keywest24]

Surprised this is the first ASCII based react component library i've seen, interesting