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Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by linker3000 » Fri, May 04, 2018, 11:39 AM UTC

Generate your own (manually):

TheDraw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw

Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by ThoAppelsin » Fri, May 04, 2018, 12:05 PM UTC

For Windows users, I strongly recommend trying this beauty: https://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk/screenshots/

It has numerous features for customization, such as specification for characters to be used in the art, font face, size. It mat export to text or png of the text in color. It allows you to adjust the color levels of the source image, or crop it on the fly.

It is not exactly the same type of software, as it actually generates using a source image. I use it sometimes to make gifts for friends.

Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by rlopezcc » Fri, May 04, 2018, 12:14 PM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #9

vortico wrote: post #2

Looks like a frontend for the command line utility FIGlet ( http://www.figlet.org/ ) or toilet ( http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet ).

If you like figlet, pipe its ouput into lolcat

Or pipe to sed for "emoji art"

Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by GavinAnderegg » Fri, May 04, 2018, 12:50 PM UTC

Can someone explain the `eftichess` type here? It seems to be mapped to sounds, maybe? I'm not able to find much information about it.

Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by skrowl » Fri, May 04, 2018, 1:56 PM UTC

vortico wrote: post #2

Looks like a frontend for the command line utility FIGlet ( http://www.figlet.org/ ) or toilet ( http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet ).

Are there any that are client-side / javascript instead of server side?

Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by lokeshdhakar » Fri, May 04, 2018, 3:17 PM UTC

sgt wrote: post #3

vortico wrote: post #2

Looks like a frontend for the command line utility FIGlet ( http://www.figlet.org/ ) or toilet ( http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet ).

Except it's actually worse than typical frontends. It's maybe cleaner looking, but it doesn't allow you to test all font types at the same time.

I did my own take on this that addresses both of your concerns: 1. Update as you type 2. Show all fonts

http://ascii.today/

This incurs performance issues in long strings, but works great for most uses.

Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by okramcivokram » Fri, May 04, 2018, 4:56 PM UTC

GavinAnderegg wrote: post #24

Can someone explain the `eftichess` type here? It seems to be mapped to sounds, maybe? I'm not able to find much information about it.

Looks like it's chess symbols, by Michel Eftimakis. See the raw font: https://github.com/xero/figlet-fonts/blob/master/eftichess.f...

Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by Cypher » Fri, May 04, 2018, 11:45 PM UTC

http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&h=0&v=0&f=Doh&t=...

Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by jamestomasino » Sat, May 05, 2018, 3:01 AM UTC

lokeshdhakar wrote: post #26

sgt wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except it's actually worse than typical frontends. It's maybe cleaner looking, but it doesn't allow you to test all font types at the same time.

I did my own take on this that addresses both of your concerns: 1. Update as you type 2. Show all fonts http://ascii.today/ This incurs performance issues in long strings, but works great for most uses.

This is really fantastic work. Bookmarking for later.