🎨 LiveScope - Real-time System Performance Art

LiveScope transforms your system's performance metrics into mesmerizing real-time ASCII art visualizations. Watch your CPU cores dance with colors, memory flow like waves, and network activity sparkle as particles across your terminal!

✨ Features

• 🔥 CPU Visualization: Each CPU core creates unique animated patterns and colors
• 🌊 Memory Waves: RAM usage flows as dynamic waves across the screen
• ⭐ Particle Effects: Beautiful particle systems for visual flair (toggle with 'p' key)
• 🎨 Multiple Themes: Fire, Ocean, Matrix, and Rainbow color schemes
• ⚡ High Performance: Runs at 60fps with minimal resource usage
• 🖥️ Terminal Native: No GUI required - pure ASCII art magic

🚀 Installation & Usage

Build from Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/fabriziosalmi/rot
cd rot

# Build the project
cargo build --release

# Run LiveScope
cargo run --release

Command Line Options

# Basic usage
cargo run

# Custom refresh rate (16ms = ~60fps)
cargo run -- --refresh 16

# Choose a color theme
cargo run -- --theme fire      # Fire theme (default)
cargo run -- --theme ocean     # Ocean blue theme  
cargo run -- --theme matrix    # Matrix green theme
cargo run -- --theme rainbow   # Rainbow theme

# Enable particle effects
cargo run -- --particles

🎮 Controls

• q - Quit LiveScope
• p - Toggle particle effects on/off

🎨 Themes

• Fire: Warm oranges and reds that pulse with CPU activity
• Ocean: Cool blues and teals that flow like water
• Matrix: Classic green-on-black terminal aesthetic
• Rainbow: Full spectrum of colors cycling through patterns

🔧 System Requirements

• OS: Linux, macOS, Windows
• Terminal: Any modern terminal with color support
• Rust: 1.70+ (for building from source)

🎯 Performance Art Patterns

LiveScope creates different visual patterns based on your system metrics:

• CPU Cores: Each core gets its own horizontal band with intensity-based patterns
• Memory Usage: Sine wave patterns that grow/shrink with RAM consumption
• Network/System Activity: Falling particles that create dynamic visual effects

🛠️ Technical Details

• Built in Rust for maximum performance and safety
• Uses sysinfo for cross-platform system monitoring
• Uses crossterm for advanced terminal control and colors
• Async/await with tokio for smooth 60fps rendering
• Minimal CPU overhead while creating maximum visual impact

🎪 Why LiveScope?

Traditional system monitors show boring graphs and numbers. LiveScope turns your computer's heartbeat into art! Perfect for:

• Developers monitoring build processes and system load
• Streamers adding visual flair to coding sessions
• System Administrators keeping an eye on server performance
• Anyone who wants their terminal to look absolutely stunning

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"Your system metrics have never looked this good!" ⚡

Built with ❤️ in Rust 🦀