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ASCII Paint

78 points by smusamashah 5y ago

durpkingOP 5y ago
now i can finally make some quality NFTs
mattwad 5y ago
This is really cool! Seems like a good start. If you're looking for suggestions, I'd like to be able to choose background and foreground colors as well as use a larger paintbrush. Maybe the tool could use different ascii characters for blending and dithering?
- smusamashah 5y ago
  Not the creator. Checkout other things made by the same person at http://generators.alienmelon.com/ http://generators.alienmelon.com/ They all have 90s vibes. Even in this ASCII paint too, apart from the blue gradient and dos like font, there is something else too with the text style or may be surprise element when drawing that gives old vibes.
donio 5y ago
M-x artist-mode
- ajsnigrutin 5y ago
  Yep, emacs has it all :)
ChrisArchitect 5y ago
(2020)
pvg 5y ago
some previous discussions of Nathalie Lawhead's work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26358259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26358259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21504983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21504983
davvid 5y ago
Sure, it's from 1999 (and earlier) but this immediately reminded me of ACiD Draw. http://www.acid.org/apps/apps.html http://www.acid.org/apps/apps.html ACiD Productions is a digital art group founded in 1990. If you're into ascii art you might dig their work. http://www.acid.org/ http://www.acid.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACiD_Productions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACiD_Productions ANSI/ASCII art was the aesthetic of the pre-internet BBS era. Text graphics was the best you could do over a slow modem link at the time. Later on we even had vector graphics (anyone remember RipTerm?) which were pretty cool (despite the slow transfer speed) because the limited speed meant you got to watch it progressively draw. https://wiki.gen.net.uk/doku.php/archive:computers:ripscrip https://wiki.gen.net.uk/doku.php/archive:computers:ripscrip
- bhauer 5y ago
  That in turn reminds me of TheDraw, which I remember in lieu of Acid Draw. Maybe a regional thing? https://www.syaross.org/thedraw/ https://www.syaross.org/thedraw/
- steve918 5y ago
  How. It's truly amazing and wonderful how unchanged and frozen in time this website is.
  - mro_name 5y ago
    Sourcecode copyright says 2012. Static websites can survive decades unharmed. Make more of them.
u-rate 5y ago
Great modern ASCII paint software (mac only): http://monodraw.helftone.com http://monodraw.helftone.com
bryans 5y ago
Some of the most creative artwork you'll ever see exists in warez groups' nfo files. https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/film/the-art-of-warez-documents-the-lost-ansi-art-scene/ https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/film/the-art-of-warez-document...
lmn_ 5y ago
If you're curious about ANSI/ASCII art, try these editors: PabloDraw (http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/ http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/) or Moebius (https://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/ https://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/). ACiDDraw, TheDraw or whatever odd editor people are recommending here, are either not supported any longer or do not serve the same purpose.
jart 5y ago
Awesome website! I once knew a guy who was part of the Blocktronics crew who drew ANSI art painstakingly by hand cell by cell. The amount of effort that goes into these things is something else. There's obviously no algorithm that can produce a finished artwork as beautiful as a human can who sits down and uses a paint prog like this. But... If you want a scriptable tool for the command line that turns the image files you made with photoshop into something that's copy/pastable with UNICODE block characters, then here's an Actually Portable Executable that'll let you do just that. Screenshot: https://justine.lol/printansi.png https://justine.lol/printansi.png Program: https://justine.lol/printansi.com https://justine.lol/printansi.com Source code: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/viz/printansi.c https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/viz/pr...

78 points by smusamashah 5y ago

now i can finally make some quality NFTs

This is really cool! Seems like a good start. If you're looking for suggestions, I'd like to be able to choose background and foreground colors as well as use a larger paintbrush. Maybe the tool could use different ascii characters for blending and dithering?

smusamashah 5y ago
Not the creator. Checkout other things made by the same person at http://generators.alienmelon.com/ http://generators.alienmelon.com/ They all have 90s vibes. Even in this ASCII paint too, apart from the blue gradient and dos like font, there is something else too with the text style or may be surprise element when drawing that gives old vibes.

donio 5y ago

M-x artist-mode

ajsnigrutin 5y ago
Yep, emacs has it all :)

ChrisArchitect 5y ago

(2020)

pvg 5y ago

some previous discussions of Nathalie Lawhead's work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26358259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26358259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21504983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21504983

davvid 5y ago

Sure, it's from 1999 (and earlier) but this immediately reminded me of ACiD Draw. http://www.acid.org/apps/apps.html http://www.acid.org/apps/apps.html ACiD Productions is a digital art group founded in 1990. If you're into ascii art you might dig their work. http://www.acid.org/ http://www.acid.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACiD_Productions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACiD_Productions ANSI/ASCII art was the aesthetic of the pre-internet BBS era. Text graphics was the best you could do over a slow modem link at the time. Later on we even had vector graphics (anyone remember RipTerm?) which were pretty cool (despite the slow transfer speed) because the limited speed meant you got to watch it progressively draw. https://wiki.gen.net.uk/doku.php/archive:computers:ripscrip https://wiki.gen.net.uk/doku.php/archive:computers:ripscrip

bhauer 5y ago
That in turn reminds me of TheDraw, which I remember in lieu of Acid Draw. Maybe a regional thing? https://www.syaross.org/thedraw/ https://www.syaross.org/thedraw/
steve918 5y ago
How. It's truly amazing and wonderful how unchanged and frozen in time this website is.
- mro_name 5y ago
  Sourcecode copyright says 2012. Static websites can survive decades unharmed. Make more of them.

u-rate 5y ago

Great modern ASCII paint software (mac only): http://monodraw.helftone.com http://monodraw.helftone.com

bryans 5y ago

Some of the most creative artwork you'll ever see exists in warez groups' nfo files. https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/film/the-art-of-warez-documents-the-lost-ansi-art-scene/ https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/film/the-art-of-warez-document...

lmn_ 5y ago

If you're curious about ANSI/ASCII art, try these editors: PabloDraw (http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/ http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/) or Moebius (https://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/ https://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/). ACiDDraw, TheDraw or whatever odd editor people are recommending here, are either not supported any longer or do not serve the same purpose.

jart 5y ago

Awesome website! I once knew a guy who was part of the Blocktronics crew who drew ANSI art painstakingly by hand cell by cell. The amount of effort that goes into these things is something else. There's obviously no algorithm that can produce a finished artwork as beautiful as a human can who sits down and uses a paint prog like this. But... If you want a scriptable tool for the command line that turns the image files you made with photoshop into something that's copy/pastable with UNICODE block characters, then here's an Actually Portable Executable that'll let you do just that. Screenshot: https://justine.lol/printansi.png https://justine.lol/printansi.png Program: https://justine.lol/printansi.com https://justine.lol/printansi.com Source code: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/viz/printansi.c https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/tool/viz/pr...