Asciimo: Online web app to generate Ascii art text

http://asciimo.com/

by RBerenguel • 16 years ago

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asciimo.com

marak4• 16 years ago

hee hee, i was a bit hesitant to post the live site on HN.

lets hope the hosting holds up! ^_^

vog3• 16 years ago

That a nice clone of the Figlet command line tool. (http://www.figlet.org/)

However, real ASCII art is more than a text with a special font.

marak4• 16 years ago

I'm actually using .flf (FIGlet) files as fonts http://github.com/Marak/asciimo/tree/master/fonts/.

You are very right in your comment. I have ascii coding laying around right now in JavaScript that can take any image and convert it into ascii, but making it work server-side is going to be hard.

If you think you can help with any of this drop me a message on the github.

vog3• 16 years ago

> I have ascii coding laying around right now in JavaScript that can take any image and convert it into ascii, but making it work server-side is going to be hard.

Why do you want to code it yourself? There's the all-time favourite AAlib (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/). [1]

However, automatically generated ASCII images aren't really art, either. It's just the generators themselves which can be called art. ASCII art almost always requires some tough hand work to become really good. For example, have a look at the Star Wars Asciimation (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1446358).

[1] The great BB demo (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/) has been created using the AAlib.

ideamonk3• 16 years ago

I think http://www.network-science.de/ascii/ has existed for more than 9 years and does its job pretty well. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.network-science.de/a...

marak4• 16 years ago

yes...and where exactly is the code with demos? where is the support? where is the server-side node.js implementation?

http://github.com/marak/asciimo

ideamonk3• 16 years ago

Hmm, fine point, so for the lazy and old ones that one has served the purpose for a long time.

For the curious and for the freedom - asciimo

mhansen• 16 years ago

Wow, I had no idea there were over 300 ASCII art fonts.

Actually, I had no idea there were ASCII Art fonts at all.

Asciimo: Online web app to generate Ascii art text

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