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bency/php-matrix-rain
=====================

Show "The Matrix Rain" on your console

2.1.0(10y ago)4703[1 issues](https://github.com/bency/matrix/issues)MITPHPPHP >=5.4.0

Since Jul 6Pushed 4y ago1 watchersCompare

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matrix
======

[](#matrix)

- Matrix alphabet rain in console.

Install
=======

[](#install)

```
$ export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin
$ composer global require bency/php-matrix-rain
$ matrix

```

- We provide three different colors: [![image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bency/matrix/master/images/matrix-preview-green.png)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bency/matrix/master/images/matrix-preview-green.png)[![image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bency/matrix/master/images/matrix-preview-blue.png)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bency/matrix/master/images/matrix-preview-blue.png)[![image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bency/matrix/master/images/matrix-preview-gray.png)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bency/matrix/master/images/matrix-preview-gray.png)
- We provide marquees

    ```
     $ matrix --marquee --wording "MATRIX"

    ```

[![image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bency/matrix/master/images/marquee.png)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bency/matrix/master/images/marquee.png)

- Also can show timer on marquee

    ```
      $ matrix --timer --timer-format "Y-m-d"

    ```

[![image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bency/matrix/master/images/timer.png)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bency/matrix/master/images/timer.png)

keyboard short cut
------------------

[](#keyboard-short-cut)

- c change raining color
- a increase the length of rain
- s decrease the length of rain

### Raining speed

[](#raining-speed)

- - slow down
- = speed up
- q quit

### Raining density

[](#raining-density)

- 1 increase life time for head
- 2 decrease life time for head
- x increase life time for tail
- z decrease life time for tail

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance15

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~14 days

Recently: every ~1 days

Total

15

Last Release

3774d ago

Major Versions

1.5.1 → 2.0.02016-01-17

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c4d9445f07b5e261d3a29dca086e7239cf99e9a94f7c4106105bbf58d8e56dd6?d=identicon)[bency](/maintainers/bency)

---

Top Contributors

[![bency](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1579698?v=4)](https://github.com/bency "bency (147 commits)")

---

Tags

ascii rainmatrix raincli rain

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