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While it does support a few additional options according to the README, I think this whole project could have consisted of no code at all and just cowsay templa

While it does support a few additional options according to the README, I think this whole project could have consisted of no code at all and just cowsay template files that you’d copy to the cowsay template directory. Typically /usr/share/cows/ Here is an example of a third-party template for cowsay: https://github.com/lochsh/alpacasay/blob/master/alpaca.cow https://github.com/lochsh/alpacasay/blob/master/alpaca.cow

ihuman 7y ago
Do cowsay templates allow you to set the color for each character?
- skykooler 7y ago
  I tested and indeed you can use ANSI escape sequences in cowsay templates.
Klathmon 7y ago
Most of the code here is for scraping images from a 3rd party and converting them into colored blank spaces to display in the terminal. The actual code used to pick a random Pokemon and display it is only a few dozen lines.
- sswezey 7y ago
  Where does the conversion from .png to tiles happen? Is it part of boxen? I can't seem to locate it within the source.
  - Klathmon 7y ago
    It's kinda hidden in the webpack config using a loader (written by the same guy!) that does the heavy lifting https://github.com/dfrankland/image-xterm-loader https://github.com/dfrankland/image-xterm-loader