what is chromatui fr?

chromaTUI is a terminal application written in Rust that turns sound into color, rebuilding an existing web based tool called the Chromatone spectrogram so it runs directly in your terminal. You speak or make noise near your microphone, and the program listens to the pitch of what it hears and paints it as color, with every note called A shown in red and a full rainbow of colors repeating once per musical octave. The display fills your whole terminal window, and it needs a fairly large one, at least 140 by 35 character cells, along with a terminal that supports full true color and a working microphone. If your terminal window is smaller than that, chromaTUI shows a message saying the screen is too small instead of drawing anything. To install it you need the Rust programming toolchain. You can install it directly from the project's online repository with a single cargo command, or clone the project first and install or run it from your own copy. On Linux you also need some audio system libraries installed before it will build. The tool has mainly been tested on Linux, though the microphone capture should also work on macOS and Windows. Switching to visualize your computer's internal audio output instead of the microphone relies on a Linux specific audio tool, so that feature will not work on other operating systems. You control the display with keyboard shortcuts: arrow keys and number keys select and adjust settings like how sharply it distinguishes close notes, how smoothly the display blends between frames, how fast the colors scroll across the screen, and how loud a sound needs to be before it appears at all. A calibration key measures your room's background noise for about a second so the sensitivity matches your environment. Your chosen settings are saved automatically between runs. The project notes that it was built with heavy use of AI coding assistants, though the design decisions were made by the author. It is released under the MIT license.