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This brings back memories. I was never an artist myself but I used some of the scene art for my BBS in the mid to late 90's. I wish there was a way to search ba
by driverdan 12y ago
This brings back memories. I was never an artist myself but I used some of the scene art for my BBS in the mid to late 90's. I wish there was a way to search based on keywords.
Even the tech is interesting. It uses a JSON API at api.artpacks.org to get the data and renders the art into <canvas> elements.
- sjs382 12y agoThanks for noticing the tech. Its held up under the load pretty well considering that the files are all only stored in their original .zip format (rather than unzipped and stored staticly). That, and its hosted on a $5/month DigitalOcean instance. :-) The rendering engine indeed renders to canvas and was created by Andy Herbert (https://github.com/ansilove/ansilove.js https://github.com/ansilove/ansilove.js). It was based on a popular PHP ANSI->PNG library called AnsiLove (written by Frederick Cambus: https://github.com/ansilove/ansilove https://github.com/ansilove/ansilove) If anyone wants to build anything on the API, please let me know (email in profile), and I'll try harder to keep it stable. :-) Search is coming soon. If anyone wants to help, the most needed item is RIPscrip rendering. We use ripscrip.js (https://github.com/andyherbert/ripscript.js https://github.com/andyherbert/ripscript.js) at the moment, but the rendering is broken on a lot of files.
- sjs382 12y agoOh, and Andy is on here too! https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=andy_herbert https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=andy_herbert