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Asciimo: Online web app to generate Ascii art text

20 points by RBerenguel 16y ago

marak 16y ago
hee hee, i was a bit hesitant to post the live site on HN. lets hope the hosting holds up! ^_^
vog 16y ago
That a nice clone of the Figlet command line tool. (http://www.figlet.org/ http://www.figlet.org/) However, real ASCII art is more than a text with a special font.
- marak 16y ago
  I'm actually using .flf (FIGlet) files as fonts http://github.com/Marak/asciimo/tree/master/fonts/ http://github.com/Marak/asciimo/tree/master/fonts/. You are very right in your comment. I have ascii coding laying around right now in JavaScript that can take any image and convert it into ascii, but making it work server-side is going to be hard. If you think you can help with any of this drop me a message on the github.
  - vog 16y ago
    > I have ascii coding laying around right now in JavaScript that can take any image and convert it into ascii, but making it work server-side is going to be hard. Why do you want to code it yourself? There's the all-time favourite AAlib (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/ http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/). [1] However, automatically generated ASCII images aren't really art, either. It's just the generators themselves which can be called art. ASCII art almost always requires some tough hand work to become really good. For example, have a look at the Star Wars Asciimation (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1446358 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1446358). [1] The great BB demo (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/ http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/) has been created using the AAlib.
    - ideamonk 16y ago
      Ah the great bb demo, it comes along Knoppix, thats where I saw it first :)
      - vog 16y ago
        It's available on all Debian-based distributions, and maybe other distributions, too.
ideamonk 16y ago
I think http://www.network-science.de/ascii/ http://www.network-science.de/ascii/ has existed for more than 9 years and does its job pretty well. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.network-science.de/ascii/ http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.network-science.de/a...
- marak 16y ago
  yes...and where exactly is the code with demos? where is the support? where is the server-side node.js implementation? http://github.com/marak/asciimo http://github.com/marak/asciimo
  - ideamonk 16y ago
    Hmm, fine point, so for the lazy and old ones that one has served the purpose for a long time. For the curious and for the freedom - asciimo
    - marak 16y ago
      :-) i really have to apologize for the hosting. i'm using some experimental hosting software instead of a battle hardened solution. if anyone is having issues with the site you can clone your own repo and just open the index.html in your browser locally without installing anything. site will become more stable over then next few weeks.
mhansen 16y ago
Wow, I had no idea there were over 300 ASCII art fonts. Actually, I had no idea there were ASCII Art fonts at all.

20 points by RBerenguel 16y ago

marak 16y ago

hee hee, i was a bit hesitant to post the live site on HN. lets hope the hosting holds up! ^_^

vog 16y ago

That a nice clone of the Figlet command line tool. (http://www.figlet.org/ http://www.figlet.org/) However, real ASCII art is more than a text with a special font.

marak 16y ago
I'm actually using .flf (FIGlet) files as fonts http://github.com/Marak/asciimo/tree/master/fonts/ http://github.com/Marak/asciimo/tree/master/fonts/. You are very right in your comment. I have ascii coding laying around right now in JavaScript that can take any image and convert it into ascii, but making it work server-side is going to be hard. If you think you can help with any of this drop me a message on the github.
- vog 16y ago
  > I have ascii coding laying around right now in JavaScript that can take any image and convert it into ascii, but making it work server-side is going to be hard. Why do you want to code it yourself? There's the all-time favourite AAlib (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/ http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/). [1] However, automatically generated ASCII images aren't really art, either. It's just the generators themselves which can be called art. ASCII art almost always requires some tough hand work to become really good. For example, have a look at the Star Wars Asciimation (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1446358 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1446358). [1] The great BB demo (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/ http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/) has been created using the AAlib.
  - ideamonk 16y ago
    Ah the great bb demo, it comes along Knoppix, thats where I saw it first :)
    - vog 16y ago
      It's available on all Debian-based distributions, and maybe other distributions, too.

ideamonk 16y ago

I think http://www.network-science.de/ascii/ http://www.network-science.de/ascii/ has existed for more than 9 years and does its job pretty well. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.network-science.de/ascii/ http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.network-science.de/a...

marak 16y ago
yes...and where exactly is the code with demos? where is the support? where is the server-side node.js implementation? http://github.com/marak/asciimo http://github.com/marak/asciimo
- ideamonk 16y ago
  Hmm, fine point, so for the lazy and old ones that one has served the purpose for a long time. For the curious and for the freedom - asciimo
  - marak 16y ago
    :-) i really have to apologize for the hosting. i'm using some experimental hosting software instead of a battle hardened solution. if anyone is having issues with the site you can clone your own repo and just open the index.html in your browser locally without installing anything. site will become more stable over then next few weeks.

mhansen 16y ago

Wow, I had no idea there were over 300 ASCII art fonts. Actually, I had no idea there were ASCII Art fonts at all.