Color ASCII Fire With cacafire
Render a burning, flickering fire as colored ASCII using libcaca.
Run cacafire to display the fire animation; press q to quit.
01Command
Command
$ cacafire02What it does
cacafire is one of the demos shipped in the caca-utils package. Unlike the older monochrome AAlib fire, libcaca renders it with color and reacts to the terminal size. It runs entirely in text and works over SSH.
03Risk
!Warning: It is a full-screen animation; run it in an interactive terminal only.
04Undo
✓No undo needed — this command does not change persistent state.
05Sources
- Debian package: caca-utilsEvidence: Installs libcaca utilities including cacafire, cacademo and img2txt.
- libcaca — Colour ASCII Art libraryEvidence: Documents the bundled demo utilities such as cacafire.
Last verified: 2026-09-20 · Category: Media