Terminal Recording

For Milestone 3, we used ASCII art and a terminal recording program called Asciinema to record our simulation. The recording looked like this:

While many groups made fancy graphical systems, using ASCII art and a terminal provides an easy and fast way to visualize your algorithm. Using Asciinema is simple:

1. Install it by following the installation instructions. If you are on a Mac, the easiest way is throw Homebrew:

   brew install asciinema
   

   On Linux, the easiest way is through your package manager.

2. Run asciinema auth to configure it with your account.
3. Run asciinema rec, and it will start recording! Simply hit Control-D or type exit to stop.

Here is a terminal recording of how to make a terminal recording:

You can embed the Asciinema recording using pure HTML inside your markdown files. The once above is embedded with:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://asciinema.org/a/8t8hFJ0OG0WLTixkMByWDt4WJ.js" id="asciicast-8t8hFJ0OG0WLTixkMByWDt4WJ" async data-size="big"></script>

See https://asciinema.org/docs/embedding for more information.