This is one of many projects resulting from boredom. I figured I would write my own starfield screensaver, except I have very little experience creating graphical programs. So, I decided to use ASCII art instead.

I used punctuation to represent stars (using both . and ` for double vertical resolution), and a couple different shades of grey for the effect, so even in a low-resolution terminal, the effect still looks pretty good.

Download: starfield.pl
Requires: perl, ncurses

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