TMatrix is a program that simulates the digital rain from The Matrix. It's focused on being the most accurate replica of the digital rain effect achievable on a typical terminal, while also being customizable and performant.

TMatrix uses the ncurses library. To install it on Ubuntu or Debian run:

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

Now that you have the required library you can install and run tmatrix:

wget -q https://github.com/M4444/TMatrix/releases/download/v1.0/installation.tar.gz
tar -zxvf installation.tar.gz
cd installation
sudo ./install.sh

To check if it installed correctly run:

tmatrix --version

This project uses C++17 so you'll need the latest tools in order you build it:

• CMake 3.8+
• GCC 7+

• ncurses

After cloning the repository run:

cd tmatrix
mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=bin/ ..
make -j8
sudo make install

TMatrix is very customizable. You can change the starting title text, the color of the background and the characters, the speed, length and separations of the rain streaks.

For a full description of all the options run man tmatrix or tmatrix --help.

Suggestions, bug reports and patch submissions are all welcome. You can create an issue, send a pull requests of just send an email. For details see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Written and maintained by Miloš Stojanović <[email protected]>.

Thanks to:

• Makefile-dot-in for fixing a problem linking atomic on Android
• sebpardo for pointing out a typo in the man page

TMatrix is licensed under the GPL-2.0-only - see the LICENSE file for details.