The famous digital rain from The Matrix, implemented in C.

This project is a fork of Domsson’s beautiful Fakesteak.

There are three color settings: head, tail, and background. They are configured by setting the 24-bit RGB channels using COLOR_*_RED, COLOR_*_GRN, and COLOR_*_BLU definitions. The ghosting effect of old monochrome screens is achieved by scaling the RGB channels. This results in a rain effect that closely resembles the original from the first Matrix movie.

In addition, this implementation supports UTF-32 character sets. The UNICODE_MIN and UNICODE_MAX controls the Unicode block used. For instance, setting them to 0x30A1 and 0x30F6 rains Katakana:

Files: source.tar.gz