snowmachine

Make it snow in your terminal

TLDR

Create a falling snow animation

$ snowmachine snow

Snow that stacks at the bottom in rainbow colors

$ snowmachine snow --stack=pile --color=rainbow

Render a Christmas tree with a classic star

$ snowmachine tree --star=classic

Slow down the falling snow (lower is slower)

$ snowmachine snow --speed=[20]

Use specific particle characters

$ snowmachine snow --particle="[*]"

snowmachine is a Python script that renders animated falling snow or a Christmas tree in your terminal. It supports customizable particle colors, snow stacking effects, speed adjustments, and star decorations for the tree mode.

PARAMETERS

--color NAME

Particle colour: white, rainbow, etc.

--stack MODE

Stack particles at the bottom: pile keeps a growing snow drift; default has none.

--speed N

Frame interval (lower = faster).

--particle CHAR

Override the snowflake character.

--star STYLE

Star atop the tree (e.g., classic).

COMMANDS

snow

Render falling snow.

tree

Render a Christmas tree.

INSTALL

nix profile install nixpkgs#snowmachine

HISTORY

snowmachine was created by John Anderson (sontek) and is written in Python.