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If you’re going to show off your Linux PC’s specs, you’ll use fastfetch. It’s easy to run, it shows all the info you need, and the little ASCII art of your chosen distro’s logo looks really cool on the side.
But what if I told you there was a way to make your fetch look even cooler? It seems unfeasible at first; after all, how do you improve on perfection? Well, someone found a way, and it’s achieved by making that awesome ASCII logo spin around. Does it enhance fetch? Nope. Will the spinning logo actually show up when you take a screenshot of your specs? Not at all. Will you install it anyway? Absolutely.
Over on the Linux subreddit, user areofyl showed off their custom fetch tool. It builds off of fastfetch to create an app that takes your distro’s logo data, adds Blinn-Phong shading to it, and then spins it around. It has no practical use, but hey, this is Fastfetch we’re talking about here; looking cool is half the reason why people use it.
Built a neofetch/fastfetch alternative that takes your distro’s ASCII logo and renders it as a rotating 3D object in the terminal, with system info displayed next to it.
It uses character density as a height map (M is heaviest, dots are lightest), derives surface normals from the gradient, and renders with Blinn-Phong shading + z-buffer. ~640 lines of C, depends on libm + fastfetch for system info.
The tool will automatically detect which distro you use, then grab its logo from Fastfetch. The creator claims that it works with any distro, and if you get a little tired of the spinning logo, hitting a keypress or CTRL-C will stop it. If you’d like to read more about this project, or get it set up on your own machine (and I don’t blame you), be sure to head over to its GitHub page for more information.
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