A 3d model viewer for the terminal
preview.mp4
Prebuilt binaries for every release are on the releases page.
See BUILD.md to build from source.
Download and run dcat-windows-setup.exe.
Download and extract the tarball; the binary finds its shaders/ directory next to itself, so it runs in place:
tar -xzf dcat-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
./dcat-linux/dcatThe binary is dynamically linked, so the runtime libraries (Vulkan, assimp, Chafa, libvips) must be installed from your package manager.
With no output-mode flag, dcat uses Chafa's terminal database to select Kitty, Sixel, iTerm2, truecolor, indexed color, or monochrome output. The existing output flags still force a mode; --kitty keeps the local shared-memory fast path, while --kitty-direct uses Chafa's inline Kitty encoder.