Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG

#1

Post by tambourine_man » Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 12:33 PM UTC

Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG
shaky.github.bushong.net

Re: Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG

#2

Post by tsukikage » Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 12:52 PM UTC

Neat. Could really do with supporting diagonal lines / \

Re: Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG

#3

Post by Tehnix » Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 1:00 PM UTC

Ah, love it! I've taken to primarily doing ASCII figures when I write papers or other things. This along with Monodraw[0] will make a nice suite of tools! (absolutely love the shaky lines, reminds me of XKCD style)

[0] http://monodraw.helftone.com/

Re: Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG

#4

Post by captn3m0 » Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 1:02 PM UTC

This works very well with diagrams created using http://asciiflow.com/

Just tried it out and the export->copy->paste->save worked really, really well.

Re: Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG

#5

Post by mnw21cam » Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 1:03 PM UTC

A non-shaky mode would be great too.

Re: Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG

#6

Post by dpw » Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 1:10 PM UTC

tsukikage wrote: post #2

Neat. Could really do with supporting diagonal lines / \

Yeah. This bit me on the first ascii diagram of mine I tried it on. But other than that, very neat.

Re: Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG

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Post by davidjgraph » Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 1:11 PM UTC

These ideas always seem to top HN. They are cute, but interactive diagram editors have been around a while and, unfortunately, are just faster to use and are more flexible.

Maybe it'd make more sense to just have one of these tools implement export to ACSII?

Re: Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG

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Post by nashashmi » Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 1:12 PM UTC

It should have support for emoticons.

Re: Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG

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Post by storrgie » Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 1:15 PM UTC

captn3m0 wrote: post #4

This works very well with diagrams created using http://asciiflow.com/ Just tried it out and the export->copy->paste->save worked really, really well.

Is a great service, but I'd love to have something I can use locally. A _lot_ of my time diagramming is spent disconnected, transitioning over photos of whiteboards to actual diagrams.

Are you aware of anything that is a local client?

Re: Shaky: ASCII Diagram to PNG

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Post by wiremine » Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 1:16 PM UTC

davidjgraph wrote: post #7

These ideas always seem to top HN. They are cute, but interactive diagram editors have been around a while and, unfortunately, are just faster to use and are more flexible. Maybe it'd make more sense to just have one of these tools implement export to ACSII?

> interactive diagram editors have been around a while and, unfortunately, are just faster to use and are more flexible

Agreed. I think what is more helpful is taking a shorthand version of a diagram and generate it into a graph (flowchart.js is an example of this).