snowmachine

snowmachine

A Go port of the python script by (John Anderson)[https://github.com/sontek/snowmachine] that brings a little festive cheer to your terminal. View it in action here:

Getting Started

You can make it snow:

$ snowmachine snow

or render a tree:

$ snowmachine tree

You can also tell it to stack the snow if you prefer.

$ snowmachine snow -stack

If you don't like the unicode particles you can tell it to use asterisk or some other character. If you use cmd.exe for example, this will be required.

$ snowmachine snow -stack -particle="*"

You can also change the particle colors if you would like:

$ snowmachine snow -color=rainbow

Full list of available flags

snow command

$ snowmachine snow -help
Usage of snow:
  -colour string
    	Change the colour of the particles. [red|green|blue|magenta|cyan|yellow] (default "white")
  -particle string
    	Change the particle used.
  -speed int
    	Increase to make it snow faster. (default 14)
  -stack
    	Set snow to pile up.

tree command

$ snowmachine tree -help
Usage of tree:
  -colour string
    	Change the colour of the snow particles. [red|green|blue|magenta|cyan|yellow] (default "green")
  -light-delay int
    	Seconds between light changes (default 1)
  -light-colour string
    	Change the color of the lights. [red|green|blue|magenta|cyan|yellow] (default "rainbow")
  -particle string
    	Change the particle used for the tree. (default "*")
  -snow
    	Whether snow should fall. (default true)
  -snow-colour string
    	Change the colour of the snow particles. [red|green|blue|magenta|cyan|yellow] (default "white")
  -snow-particle string
    	Change the snow particle used.
  -snow-speed int
    	Increase to make it snow faster. (default 14)