TermGL

A terminal-based graphics library for 2D and 3D graphics.

Features:

• Windows & *NIX support
• C99 compliant without external dependencies
• Custom vertex and pixel shaders
• Affine texture mapping
• 24 bit RGB
• Indexed color mode: 16 Background colors, 16 foreground colors, bold and underline
• Non-blocking input from terminal
• Mouse tracking

Gallery

Build

You can compile termgl.c as you would any other C source file. You can also compile it as a shared library libtermgl.so by calling make shared. To install the shared library, sudo make install.

To enable 3D functionality, define TERMGL3D or use the -DTERMGL3D compiler flag. To enable utility functions, define TERMGLUTIL or use the -DTERMGLUTIL compiler flag. To disable helper functions for vector math and shaders, define TERMGL_MINIMAL or use the -DTERMGL_MINIMAL compiler flag.

To use TermGL in C++, compile it as a shared library and link against the libtermgl.so file. The termgl.h header can be included from C++ files.

To compile a demo program, run make demo, creating the termgl_demo binary.

Documentation

The header file termgl.h contains brief documentation for all functions and structs. The TermGLUtil extension contains functions for reading keyboard input, but requires either Windows or *NIX headers.

Demo

A demo program can be found at demo/termgl_demo.c.

Available demos and TermGL features used:

1. Utah Teapot
   Renders a rotating 3D Utah Teapot.
   • Backface culling
   • Z buffering
   • Double-width characters
   • 3D rendering
   • Custom shaders
2. Color Palette
   Renders a palette of various text colors and styles.
   • Colors & Modifiers
3. Mandelbrot
   Renders an infinitely zooming-in Mandelbrot set.
   • Point rendering
4. Realtime Keyboard
   Displays keyboard input in realtime.
   • Text rendering
   • Realtime keyboard input
5. Textured Cube
   Renders a texture-mapped cube.
   • Backface culling
   • Z buffering
   • Double-width characters
   • 3D rendering
   • Shaders
   • Texture mapping
6. RGB
   Renders overlapping red, green, and blue circles.
   • 24 bit RGB
   • Text rendering
7. Mouse
   Displays mouse position and button state.
   • Mouse tracking
   • Text rendering