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šŸ‘½ acidus

what do people use to generate ASCII art for their capsules? Iā€™m looking for something that handles edges well

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šŸ‘½ acidus

That last picture is Vatican City! It has funny looking borders because they are the triangular projections of the walls of a Bastion fort šŸ˜‚ Ā· 1 year ago

šŸ‘½ acidus

@tigercarnival Glad that helps. I was experimenting with countries, and you can see the results here:

gemini://gemi.dev/tests/ascii.gmi

The "braille" version of Germany looks really good to me. Ā· 1 year ago

šŸ‘½ tigercarnival

@acidus this looks really neat! better than what i was using before for sure. thanks for the link! Ā· 1 year ago

šŸ‘½ shway

https://csl.name/jp2a/ Works in lots of OS (there is an Amiga port)

For drawing: https://kirilllive.github.io/tuesday-js/tools/ascii_paint.html I wish it was native, and not a web app Ā· 1 year ago

šŸ‘½ acidus

Thanks all. This is exactly what I was looking for:

https://github.com/TheZoraiz/ascii-image-converter

Specifcally the braille output. I have some black and white vector images that I want to convert, and the braille characters really preserve those sharp edges Ā· 1 year ago

šŸ‘½ tigercarnival

for drawing directly i use: https://fsymbols.com/draw/

for converting pictures or art to ascii: https://www.ascii-art-generator.org/

and for headers, titles, etc: https://patorjk.com/software/taag/ (similar to textkool that freezr sent) :o) Ā· 1 year ago

šŸ‘½ freezr

On FreeBSD and Linux you may found figlet... But I discovered this later.

Recently I used:

https://textkool.com/en/ascii-art-generator

https://www.asciiart.eu/

http://www.figlet.org/ Ā· 1 year ago