ASCII Moon Phases in Python and Rust
Posted by Al Sweigart in misc
I created a program that draws ASCII art of the current phase of the moon. You can install the package with pip install ascii_moon_phase or from its project page on PyPI. The source is available in its git repo. For a compiled version, I used an LLM to port the code to Rust. This blog post details how it works and the math behind it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_month#Synodic_month
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day
