Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals

github.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 31 posts

Re: Show HN: Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals

#11

Post by samstave »

indyjoenz wrote: post #6
kid64 wrote: post #5

I've been waiting for something like this. Is animation supported? Any plans for Android support?

Thanks! Yes, animation was one of the earliest features. It uses its own animation engine and file format (which is a gzipped JSON file), which gives the artist fine control over the timing (unlike traditional ansimation files), by giving them frames-per-second speed control and custom delays on frames. There is a video or two on youtube demonstrating this, and you can scroll down on the Durdraw homepage and readme t…

This is awesome. Since Steamboat willy is officially in the public domain as of today.....

So, it installs in windows powershell https://i.imgur.com/1Yt1V5v.png - but attempting to run it just pops up with "what program do you want to open this with" - I tried it in powershell, Anaconda Python CMD, regular CMD/run as admin - all the same result.

How troubleshoot?

Could I run it in a docker more easily?

Running this on an android table might be fun - but the menu UX might need to be more ribbon-style?

EDIT:

I just threw up a ubuntu VM and installed it there: https://i.imgur.com/nbtmXwN.png

SWEET

Re: Show HN: Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals

#12

Post by kevin_thibedeau »

sgbeal wrote: post #2

TheDraw was one of the few pieces of 1990s shareware i purchased, and i have fond memories of it, but i feel compelled to ask: what use is that sort of thing nowadays? Back then we used them to make animations for dial-up BBSes, but the internet has long since obsoleted that. :-?

I used Moebius a few months ago for a new corporate logo that couldn't be drawn in plain ASCII.

Re: Show HN: Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals

#13

Post by cf100clunk »

indyjoenz wrote: post #9
okmg wrote: post #8

Very interesting! Does it have a function to convert images to ascii art?

It doesn't. Thanks for the great question. However, I made another program a while back that plays GIFs and images in a text terminal similar to what you're describing (see https://github.com/cmang/gifterm ), and I plan to incorporate that functionality into a future version of Durdraw.

I've come across jp2a in the past for converting jpeg-to-ascii:

https://github.com/cslarsen/jp2a

and there is also this image and video-to-ascii tool in case it might be of use:

https://gist.github.com/motiondesignstudio/9374326

Re: Show HN: Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals

#14

Post by pengaru »

sgbeal wrote: post #2

TheDraw was one of the few pieces of 1990s shareware i purchased, and i have fond memories of it, but i feel compelled to ask: what use is that sort of thing nowadays? Back then we used them to make animations for dial-up BBSes, but the internet has long since obsoleted that. :-?

After a long-time collaborator got bit by the ansi/ascii art bug we slapped together a silly little game during the covid lockdowns using his ANSIs for sprites:

https://sars.pengaru.com/

experimental outdated wasm build @

https://sars.pengaru.com/wasm/

I found it kind of interesting as a medium for quick-n-dirty cheeseball horrid pixel style art. There's something to be said for a legible toilet paper roll in so few glyphs worth of creative effort/time.

Re: Show HN: Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals

#17

Post by [deleted] »

sgbeal wrote: post #2

TheDraw was one of the few pieces of 1990s shareware i purchased, and i have fond memories of it, but i feel compelled to ask: what use is that sort of thing nowadays? Back then we used them to make animations for dial-up BBSes, but the internet has long since obsoleted that. :-?

[deleted]

Re: Show HN: Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals

#18

Post by indyjoenz »

samstave wrote: post #11
indyjoenz wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Yes, animation was one of the earliest features. It uses its own animation engine and file format (which is a gzipped JSON file), which gives the artist fine control over the timing (unlike traditional ansimation files), by giving them frames-per-second speed control and custom delays on frames. There is a video or two on youtube demonstrating this, and you can scroll down on the Durdraw homepage and readme t…

This is awesome. Since Steamboat willy is officially in the public domain as of today..... So, it installs in windows powershell https://i.imgur.com/1Yt1V5v.png - but attempting to run it just pops up with "what program do you want to open this with" - I tried it in powershell, Anaconda Python CMD, regular CMD/run as admin - all the same result. How troubleshoot? Could I run it in a docker more easily? Running this o…

I'm glad you got it working. I'll probably work on a Docker installer in the future.

Normally, in Windows, the best way to run it in WSL. There is an issue with windows-curses that durdraw doesn't like, and keeps it from running natively in Windows (in powershell, etc) without WSL.

Yes, a tablet or phone version would need to be re-designed to be touch friendly, naturally.

Thanks for checking it out. :)

Re: Show HN: Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals

#20

Post by indyjoenz »

NuSkooler wrote: post #16

https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_draw

Icy Draw is a very good newschool ANSI editor, too. The developer is very skilled and he put together a great, feature rich tool in a short amount of time.

I'd love to steal some of the features from it. Icy Draw joins the many GUI ANSI editors, though (like Moebius and Pablodraw), and Durdraw tries to get away from that by operating using real escape codes and real terminals. We also seem to have a different philosophy on animation.

Post reply on HN