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Re: ASCIIFlow Infinity

#31

Post by dmd » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 3:46 PM UTC

pveierland wrote: post #30

dmd wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Monodraw is incredible , and vastly more useful than ASCIIFlow just by dint of the fact that objects remain objects after drawn - you can drag them around and the graph remains intact.

ASCIIFlow does keep models of drawn boxes, lines, and arrows. If you use the "resize/move boxes and lines" tool, you can adjust drawn objects.

Ah, so it does. Not especially well, but it does. My mistake!

Re: ASCIIFlow Infinity

#32

Post by rbonvall » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 3:49 PM UTC

I like this. Unfortunately it's not as semantic as I expected:

            X
     +----+XX----------+
     |     XX          |
     |      XX         |
     |       +XXX------+
     |       |   XXXXX
     +-------+       XXX

     If I try to resize
     a rectangle that's
     crossed by a free-form
     curve, it stops being
     a rectangle.

(Now that I think, I could also use this as a feature).

Re: ASCIIFlow Infinity

#33

Post by cryptonector » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 3:51 PM UTC

Reminds me of JavE (http://jave.de/).

EDIT: What would be extra awesome would be a mode where it saves SVG. And/or a tool that renders SVG as ASCII art.

EDIT: Also, JavE does much more than asciiflow, as it even allows you to create ASCII movies.

Re: ASCIIFlow Infinity

#34

Post by farresito » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 4:01 PM UTC

arca_vorago wrote: post #28

farresito wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't tried it, but could it be this one? https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow2

That looks like it to me, though for some reason I didn't expect it to be java. Regardless, thanks so much for the link! Huge bonus that it's gplv3 for me, I will def be playing with this. Did you find it from the website and I just missed it or did you have to search for it?

A few weeks ago I was interested in this project, too, and looking around I came across this link. The author's profile also points to the AsciiFlow website, so I assumed that would be it. I think you might have misread the language; it's actually written in javascript :-)

Re: ASCIIFlow Infinity

#35

Post by alanfalcon » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 4:01 PM UTC

tzahola wrote: post #5

Why is there a separate tool for creating text? It would be better to just click to place the cursor and start typing.

Also this works on mobile.

Re: ASCIIFlow Infinity

#36

Post by ams6110 » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 4:03 PM UTC

wyuenho wrote: post #22

prateek_mir wrote: post #18

On similar lines, I very recently discovered the combination of emacs + Artist Mode + ditaa for creating diagrams, and the experience has been pretty good so far too.

Oh yeah, this combo is actually one of the better modes in Emac-land. Whenever I see yet another ASCII art link posted here, I just gaggle cos Artist mode is that good.

Like many emacs things, there more than one. There's also picture-mode. I haven't used either very much, but my sense is that artist-mode is more mouse-oriented and possibly supports more sophisticated drawings but picture-mode may work better in terminals.

Re: ASCIIFlow Infinity

#37

Post by wazoox » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 4:18 PM UTC

There's also my favorite, Asciio https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Asciio

It allows saving the object format for later modification or export as pure ascii text, as needed. And it works on all platforms that support Perl (a lot).

Re: ASCIIFlow Infinity

#38

Post by bootywizard » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 4:49 PM UTC

dmd wrote: post #31

pveierland wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ASCIIFlow does keep models of drawn boxes, lines, and arrows. If you use the "resize/move boxes and lines" tool, you can adjust drawn objects.

Ah, so it does. Not especially well, but it does. My mistake!

Author here - it does but it doesn't, which is why it doesn't always work so well. It never actually keeps track of the shapes in a seperate data model - the text itself is the only data model. When you resize, it retraces out the lines that need editing. I did this as the expected use case is for diagrams in code, where diagrams may be copy pasted in and out of the tool and I'd lose any underlying models that I was working with. For fun: https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow2/blob/master/js-lib/draw...

Re: ASCIIFlow Infinity

#39

Post by symisc_devel » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 5:56 PM UTC

Another project we worked on using machine learning (decision tree) to transform an input image or video frame into printable ASCII characters:

https://art.pixlab.io

Re: ASCIIFlow Infinity

#40

Post by nimbius » Tue, Jan 02, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

As a Linux sysadmin, this is incredible flowchart software and I really enjoy using it. Is there a diagram software for console I could use thats just as easy I wonder?

The downside is it has very limited sex appeal for *.managers. Microsoft Visio has turned diagrams into blinding tapestries of overpriced clipart, fancy arrows, and logos. Worst of all, its an enabler for the cardinal sin of diagrams: overlapping lines.