There a few options, but I'm going to suggest using the inthing Python module.
First install inthing with PIP. You'll probably know if you need to use sudo or not:
Now fire up Python, and enter the following (copy and paste each line after the >>> prompt):
So far so good. We now have a Stream object called stream, with a corresponding live page on the web. We'll have a look at that later, but lets first do something interesting with it. Enter the following function (copy and paste all the text after the >>>):
If that pasted correctly, we should have a function that generates the Mandlebrot set in ASCII. Add it to the stream with the following:
Finally, to get the URL of the stream, do this:
If you visit that URL, you should see the Mandlebrot set you just generated. continue reading…