---
name: "cacafire"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libcaca"
version: "0.99.beta20-7"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cacafire"
---

# cacafire(1)

libcaca's demonstration applications

## NAME

cacademo, cacafire - libcaca's demonstration applications

## SYNOPSIS

cacademo

cacafire

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the cacademo and cacafire programs.

**cacademo** displays ASCII art effects with animated transitions: metaballs, moire pattern of concentric circles, old school plasma, Matrix-like scrolling.

**cacafire** displays burning ASCII art flames.

## KEYS

- **Enter**

  forces an effect transition to happen

- **Space**

  pauses and resumes the program

- **Esc**

  exits the program

## BUGS

Please report any bugs you find to \<libcaca@lists.zoy.org\>.

## LICENSE

cacademo is covered by the Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License (WTFPL). cacafire is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

## AUTHORS

**cacademo's** moire and matrix effects and this manual page were written by Sam Hocevar \<sam@hocevar.net\>.

**cacademo's** metaball effect was written by Jean-Yves Lamoureux \<jylam@lnxscene.org\>, **cacafire** is a port of AAlib's **aafire** written by Jan Hubicka \<hubicka@freesoft.cz\> and **cacademo's** plasma effect is a port of an SDL plasma effect written and put in the public domain by Michele Bini \<mibin@tin.it\>.

## SEE ALSO

[cacaview(1)](/cacaview/1.md), [aafire(1)](/aafire/1.md)