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Isn't this a 35 year old trick? I could have sworn I've known about it for at least 25

by kristopolous 6y ago

Quarrel 6y ago
Lots of tricks are old. You've just got to think of and apply them in the right context. Most of the world's major breakthroughs are basically just this.
- kristopolous 6y ago
  what I mean is I don't understand why the post is significant. This is something I'd expect to see done by just about anybody along with the full 8th blocks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements on literally the first day or two of starting this kind of project. I like positive open source threads sure, but is that what this is about or is there some extraordinary technical details I'm not seeing? Examples of people being nice to each other in FLOSS projects is certainly something we could always use more of, sure. Is that what this is?
  - petters 6y ago
    > Examples of people being nice to each other in FLOSS projects is certainly something we could always use more of, sure. Is that what this is? Yes. That's how I interpreted it, at least. (I think it's great)
simeng 6y ago
Yep, it was used in ansi graphics on BBSes back in the day
- tobypadilla 6y ago
  That's correct! In fact when we announced this we mentioned that the BBS technique was what inspired this PR: https://twitter.com/charmcli/status/1320184218794795010 https://twitter.com/charmcli/status/1320184218794795010 It's interesting to see forgotten lore or techniques reemerge. We (Charm) have just published a TUI framework called Bubble Tea and imgcat was one of the first tools that implemented it, so we were excited to see the progress and help with rendering. https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
mark254 6y ago
Yes. See "libaa" and the "bb" demo. http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/ http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/

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Isn't this a 35 year old trick? I could have sworn I've known about it for at least 25

by kristopolous 6y ago

Isn't this a 35 year old trick? I could have sworn I've known about it for at least 25

Quarrel 6y ago
Lots of tricks are old. You've just got to think of and apply them in the right context. Most of the world's major breakthroughs are basically just this.
- kristopolous 6y ago
  what I mean is I don't understand why the post is significant. This is something I'd expect to see done by just about anybody along with the full 8th blocks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements on literally the first day or two of starting this kind of project. I like positive open source threads sure, but is that what this is about or is there some extraordinary technical details I'm not seeing? Examples of people being nice to each other in FLOSS projects is certainly something we could always use more of, sure. Is that what this is?
  - petters 6y ago
    > Examples of people being nice to each other in FLOSS projects is certainly something we could always use more of, sure. Is that what this is? Yes. That's how I interpreted it, at least. (I think it's great)
simeng 6y ago
Yep, it was used in ansi graphics on BBSes back in the day
- tobypadilla 6y ago
  That's correct! In fact when we announced this we mentioned that the BBS technique was what inspired this PR: https://twitter.com/charmcli/status/1320184218794795010 https://twitter.com/charmcli/status/1320184218794795010 It's interesting to see forgotten lore or techniques reemerge. We (Charm) have just published a TUI framework called Bubble Tea and imgcat was one of the first tools that implemented it, so we were excited to see the progress and help with rendering. https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
mark254 6y ago
Yes. See "libaa" and the "bb" demo. http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/ http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/