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Add eight playful native terminal effects - #22

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Summary

This adds eight original native effects to ttfx:

  • airstrike — ASCII planes dive into the text through fire and debris
  • automata — a fractal elementary cellular automaton resolves into the text
  • bubblepop — rainbow-shimmering bubbles rise, pop, and reveal the text
  • malfunction — a cheerful printer produces nonsense before smoothly printing the text
  • reverselife — Conway's Game of Life runs backward from chaos into readable lettering
  • roses — curling vines, pink roses, and falling petals flower into the text
  • sunshower — rain, clouds, a rising sun, and a rainbow paint the text
  • voronoi — living crystal grows into a faceted Voronoi mosaic and returns to the text

The transitions deliberately connect each animation to the final lettering, and the longer choreography is intended to feel satisfying as a full-screen screensaver rather than a brief CLI flourish.

A small personal note

These effects were dreamed up, watched, critiqued, and refined together with my children and OpenAI Codex. The children were enthusiastic creative directors and the ultimate quality test: the goal was to make something playful enough to genuinely delight them. Codex collaborated on the design iterations and implementation.

Other changes

  • Registers all new effects with --random-effect
  • Adds configurable timing, colors, gradients, and effect-specific controls
  • Adds stock Omarchy logo GIFs and documents all effects in the README gallery
  • Improves the GIF renderer's treatment of block and box-drawing glyphs so terminal artwork stays aligned
  • Excludes native-only effects from upstream Python parity comparisons and includes them correctly in benchmarks/gallery metadata

Verification

  • cargo test
  • cargo check
  • git diff --check
  • Manually exercised each effect against the full Omarchy screensaver text
  • Rendered and visually checked every new stock-logo GIF

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