Ratty: A Terminal That Renders 3D Graphics

The story

What the video said

Ratty, an open source terminal app, turns your plain text shell into a window that can show real 3D objects. You get a normal terminal first, then you can switch on a 3D view whenever you want.

You want to check a 3D model file without leaving your terminal, but most terminals only show text and can’t draw the model at all. So you end up opening a separate app just to look at it.

Ratty is an open source terminal emulator that runs a real shell and draws the output with a game engine. It adds a 3D mode on top of the normal 2D view, and you can place 3D objects right on terminal cells.

In this demo, you can see a red pixel outline drawn on a grid canvas, with a live 3D shape growing beside it. The shape rotates as the outline fills in, so the model updates while you draw.

Ratty is a GPU rendered terminal emulator that adds inline 3D graphics to a normal shell session. It is open source, MIT licensed, and you can install it with cargo install ratty.

This page was generated from the Ming Dao AI publication record.